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SEARCHLIGHT  ON  GERMANY 

GERMANY'S  BLUNDERS,  CRIMES 
AND  PUNISHMENT 


BY 


DR.  WILLIAM  T.  HORNADAY 

Member  Board  of  Trustees  American  Defense  Society 


Preparation  Pamphlet  Series 


PUBLISHED  BY 

AMERICAN  DEFENSE  SOCIETY 

44  EAST  23d  STREET 
NEW  YORK 


I.    The  Blunders  of  Germany. 

BY  WILLIAM  T.  HORNADAY. 
Member  Board  of  Trustees  American  Defense  Society. 

Already  in  America  there  are  signs  of  the  inevitable  ' '  mag- 
nanimity "  toward  the  great  world  criminal  of  the  present 
world  war,  and  of  a  movement  for  a  whitewashed  peace  with 
* '  no  annexations  and  no  indemnities. ' '  There  is  danger  that 
within  six  months  Americans  who  do  not  know  Germany  will 
seek  to  snatch  the  boon  of  durable  peace  and  human  freedom 
from  the  Allied  nations  who  have  given  their  bravest  and  best 
men,  literally  by  millions,  and  their  wealth  by  billions,  to  pro- 
tect the  rights  of  man.  A  German  peace  means  a  German 
triumph,  and  the  certainty  of  another  war  in  the  near  future. 
As  an  approach  toward  a  settlement,  it  is  now  very  necessary 
that  every  American  should  know  Germany  exactly  as  that 
bloody  military  dragon  really  is.  As  a  means  to  that  end, 
these  three  chapters  have  been  written. 

The  blunders,  crimes  and  punishment  of  Germany  are  in- 
separably linked  together. 

The  blunders  of  Germany  constitute  a  spectacle  of  very 
much  more  than  passing  interest.  The  questions  they  raise 
are  by  no  means  academic.  The  logic  of  them  is  as  inexorable 
as  Death.  They  are  of  vital  interest  to  every  freeman,  and 
to  every  state  and  nation  that  sincerely  undertakes  to  con- 
serve the  rights  of  its  people.  To  unhappy  Austria,  shoved 
into  the  war  by  Germany,  they  are  of  life  or  death  interest. 
A  correct  view  of  Germany  is  now  absolutely  essential  to  the 
future  freedom  of  man! 

Germany  now  resembles  a  rat  in  a  pit,  furious  from  count- 
less defeats,  insane  with  baffled  hate  and  rage,  and  wild  with 
a  fearful  certainty  of  her  Finish.  All  her  fine  plans,  and 
twenty  years  of  active  preparation,  have  gone  awry.  Her 
vast  naval  and  military  preparations  have  brought  her  only 
death,  poverty,  ruin  and  hatred.  Even  her  own  allies  now 

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thoroi-ghly  ho.te  and  detest  her,  and  one  and  all  would  break 
away  from  her  if  they  dared. 

All  her  long  years  of  lying  and  spying  and  plotting  have 
been  revealed  in  their  naked  and  hideous  ugliness.  She  stands 
before  the  world  as  a  foiled  conquestador,  a  black-hearted 
murderer  of  defenseless  women,  children  and  old  men,  and 
the  wholesale  ravisher  of  helpless  women.  The '  '  skull-cracker ' ' 
spiked  club  of  Germany,  and  the  deadly  "murderer's  mace" 
of  Austria,  now  abundantly  shown  in  Italy 's  war  museum, 
are  used  for  the  murdering  of  wounded  prisoners  in  the 
trenches  and  on  the  battlefields. 

And  now  Germany,  like  a  mortally  wounded  wolf  with  the 
hounds  at  his  throat,  undertakes  to  propose  terms  of  peace  to 
the  Allies!  "With  a  great  show  of  large-heartedness,  the 
Reichstag  now  talks  very  magnanimously  of  peace  with  "no 
annexations  and  no  indemnities. ' '  Yes,  indeed !  A  peace  on 
that  basis  would  suit  Germany  well.  Tricky  and  shifty  to 
the  last  gasp,  she  seeks  thus  to  catch  the  swell-headed  "sol- 
diers and  workmen"  of  Russia,  the  large-mouthed  and  blatant 
anarchists  and  radical  socialists  of  America,  and  the  traitor- 
pacifists  of  the  world  at  large.  But  all  honest  men  who  are 
wide  awake  know  full  well  that  a  peace  of  that  nature  would 
spell  "victory"  for  Germany,  and  as  certain  as  death  and 
taxes  another  war  with  her  later  on ! 

The  Entente  Allies  presently  will  fix  the  terms  of  peace,  as 
they  should  be  fixed,  and  Germany  will  accept  them ;  but  first 
there  will  be  another  eighteen  months  of  war. 

With  new  German-made  peace  talk  streaming  out  of  Berlin, 
it  is  now  time  to  post  the  books  for  the  past  three  years,  and 
see  how  the  German  account  stands.  Nothing  is  more  con- 
ducive to  peace  and  prosperity  than  a  true  sense  of  propor- 
tion, and  a  correct  point  of  view.  In  all  times  of  danger  it 
is  best  to  know  the  worst. 

The  debit  side  of  Germany's  account  quickly  resolves  itself, 
first  of  all,  into  a  catalogue  of  Germany's  blunders,  as  the 
reasons  for  her  crimes,  and  her  present  state  of  impotent  rage. 
It  is  highly  necessary  that  Americans  should  study  this  list, 
in  order  to  judge  the  case  fairly,  and  to  be  able  to  act  intelli- 
gently when  the  times  comes  for  the  Allies  to  discuss  the  peace 
terms  that  Germany,  Austria  and  Turkey  must  accept. 

It  is  the  natural  impulse  of  high-minded  and  humane  peo- 
ple to  be  over-magnanimous  to  beaten  enemies,  to  condone 
crime  altogether  too  often,  and  to  help  the  down-and-out 

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criminal  to  get  back  upon  his  feet.  It  is  also  a  sadly  common 
thing  for  a  confirmed  criminal  to  turn,  cur-like,  and  bite  the 
hand  that  helps  him ;  and  many  a  criminal  has  murdered  the 
generous  man  or  woman  who  gave  him  a  place  to  lay  his  head. 

There  are  criminals  and  criminals.  Some  deserve  succor; 
others  merit  quick  extermination.  The  confirmed  criminal 
is  in  a  class  by  himself.  He  is  unfit  to  live ;  but  as  the  very 
smallest  measure  of  self -protection,  society  should  punish  him 
for  his  crimes,  and  render  him  innocuous  for  the  future.  In 
other  words,  every  confirmed  criminal  should  either  be  killed 
or  segregated,  and  made  to  exist  in  a  little  hell  of  his  own, 
while  decent  people  go  their  respective  ways  in  peace  and 
security. 

Eight  million  men,  to  whom  America  shortly  will  add  at 
least  two  million  more,  bravely  are  risking  their  lives  on  the 
battlefields  of  Europe  and  Asia  in  an  effort  to  put  two  crimi- 
nal nations, — Germany  and  Turkey, — into  an  exclusive  hell 
of  their  own,  and  keep  them  there  for  the  protection  of 
civilization. 

In  courts  of  law,  it  is  customary  to  consider  the  motives  of 
the  prisoner  at  the  bar,  to  search  out  his  lines  of  thought,  and 
study  his  methods.  An  annotated  catalogue  of  the  blunders 
of  Germany  will  afford  a  clear  insight  into  the  present  world 
situation,  and  the  Teutonic  frame  of  temper.  It  will  also 
serve  a  good  purpose  when  the  time  comes  to  arraign  Ger- 
many and  her  allies  for  sentence. 

Before  we  open  the  door  of  the  German  den  of  mixed  wolves 
and  mad-dogs,  let  us  read  this  marvelously  true  and  prophetic 
pen  picture  of  Kaiser  William  as  it  was  published  by  Harold 
Frederic,  in  the  New  York  Times,  on  April  2,  1888,  twenty- 
nine  years  ago : 

1 '  In  the  same  way  you  look  into  the  face  of  this  young  heir 
of  the  Hohenzollerns  and  remember  the  malignant  tales  which 
have  been  told  of  his  inner  nature  by  those  who  know  him 
best.  Apparently  all  the  women — at  least  all  the  English 
women — who  have  had  to  do  with  the  bringing  up  of  Prince 
William  hold  him  in  horror  and  detestation.  I  have  had  nu- 
merous proofs  of  this,  although  I  have  never  been  able  to 
fasten  upon  any  specific  reason  for  it.  Their  dislike  for  him 
is  based  on  a  general  conception  of  his  character.  This  view 
is  that  he  is  .utterly  cold,  entirely  selfish,  wantonly  cruel ;  a 
young  man  without  conscience  or  compassion,  or  any  soften- 

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ing  virtues  whatever.  That  he  has  great  abilities  they  all 
admit,  but  they  stop  there.  Heart  he  has  none,  upon  their 
reckoning.  .  .  . 

"It  seems  very  probable  that  some  future  Taine  a  century 
hence,  perhaps,  will  write  to  show  that  William  II  of  Prussia 
was  a  mysterious  belated  survival  of  the  ante-mediaeval 
Goths  and  Vandals, — an  Attila  born  a  thousand  and  more 
years  after  his  time." 

How  many  Americans  are  willing  to  trust  themselves  in  the 
power  of  such  a  man  ? 

1.    THE  GREAT  BLUNDER  OF  GERMANY  AND  HER 
KAISER  IN  STARTING  THE  WAR. 

By  the  light  of  the  official  documents  of  Austria,  Servia, 
Germany,  Russia,  France  and  England,  now  open  before  us, 
it  is  an  easy  task  to  write  the  history  of  the  beginning  of  the 
war  in  one  paragraph.  The  most  conclusive  evidence  of  Ger- 
many's guilt  is  the  official  " German  white  book,"  dated 
"Foreign  Office,  August,  1914."  It  has  convinced  many  a 
reader. 

On  July  25,  1914,  Servia  humbled  herself  to  the  dust  at  the 
feet  of  Austria,  to  appease  her  for  the  murder  of  her  crown 
prince  by  a  crazy  and  criminal  fool;  and  little  Servia  con- 
ceded everything  that  giant  Austria  demanded,  save  a  prac- 
tical surrender  of  her  national  honor.  Austria  had  fully 
made  up  her  mind  to  destroy  Servia,  anyhow;  and  in  that 
connection  Germany  and  her  Kaiser  decided  the  event  would 
serve  well  for  starting  the  great  war  of  conquest  for  which  the 
Germans  had  long  and  lovingly  been  preparing.  The  Czar 
begged  the  Kaiser  not  to  consent  to  the  slaughter  of  little 
Servia  by  the  Austrian  big  bully.  The  Kaiser  replied  that 
Austria  should  have  a  free  hand.  The  Czar  appealed  to 
England  and  to  France,  to  help  him  avert  a  war;  and  both 
those  nations  did  their  level  best  to  avert  hostilities.  No  plea 
that  could  postpone  the  clash  of  armies,  or  promote  a  peaceful 
settlement  was  omitted.  The  last  telegram  of  Czar  Nicholas 
to  Kaiser  Wilhelm  (August  1)  was  a  pathetic  appeal  for 
delay,  and  a  chance  "to  negotiate  for  the  welfare  of  our  two 
countries  and  the  universal  peace  which  is  so  dear  to  our 
hearts.  With  the  aid  of  God,"  said  the  Czar,  "it  must  be 
possible  to  our  long-tried  friendship  to  prevent  the  shedding 
of  blood."  To  this  the  Kaiser  icily  replied:  "Although  I 

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asked  for  a  reply  by  today  noon  [to  his  telegraphed  ultima- 
tum], no  telegram  from  my  Ambassador  has  reached  me," 
and  "I  therefore  have  been  forced  to  mobilize  my  army." 
Germany's  many  statements  that  France  began  hostilities 
with  her  are  one  and  all  totally  false. 

Now,  here  is  a  significant  fact : 

On  July  14, 1917,  in  a  speech  before  the  Austrian  Reichsrath 
former  Minister  Praschek  (a  Czech)  cried  out: 

"Must  we  continue  to  sacrifice  our  interests  for  the  expan- 
sion of  Germany?  Must  we  continue  to  submit  to  the  Ger- 
man militarism  that  has  drawn  us  into  this  war?" 

Alas!  At  last  the  truth  is  out,  officially  and  openly!  We 
thought  as  much!  Many  men  have  believed  that  Germany 
shoved  Austria  into  the  war,  because  Germany  was  all  ready 
for  her  great  offense,  and  the  murder  at  Sarajevo  served  as 
a  convenient  excuse.  If  Germany  had  not  backed  up  Austria, 
and  Russia  had  forbidden  Austria  to  attack  Servia,  there 
would  have  been  no  war !  But  Germany  hailed  that  murder 
as  her  heaven-sent  opportunity  to  begin.  It  was  to  her  "Der 
Tag"! 

All  the  world  knows  that  if  the  Kaiser  had  sent  a  nine-word 
telegram  to  Austria,  at  a  cost  of  one  mark,  saying:  "Do  not 
begin  war  on  Servia  until  further  notice,"  Austria  would  not 
have  dared  go  on!  But  no!  William  and  his  Germans  re- 
fused to  admonish  Austria,  or  to  delay  hostilities  by  Ger- 
many. "We  can  not  interfere  with  the  plans  of  our  Ally;" 
said  William,  "and  we  have  mobilized." 

And  thus  did  the  German  people  and  their  Kaiser  begin 
the  war  to  which  they  had  so  long  and  so  eagerly  looked 
forward. 

2.    GERMANY'S    RUTHLESS    DEVOTION    TO    SELF 

INTEREST. 

When  Rapacity  moves  into  the  next  house,  it  is  time  to  lock 
your  cellar  door.  Yoke  up  insatiable  Appetite  with  colossal 
Egotism,  and  the  inevitable  runaway  is  only  a  question  of 
time. 

While  enjoying  the  benefits  of  an  industrial  prosperity  and 
a  world-wide  commerce  that  had  won  the  admiration  of  the 
world,  the  Germans  complained  about  being  denied  their 
"place  in  the  sun";  and  they  reached  out  after  world 
supremacy.  England  and  the  United  States  were  like  twin 

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thorns  in  the  side  of  the  Kaiser  and  the  German  people  at 
large.  The  pan-Germanists  busily  plotted  against  both  those 
nations. 

Concerning  England,  a  distinguished  German-born  citizen 
of  New  York,  Mr.  Otto  H.  Kahn,  wrote  to  a  relative  in  Ger- 
many (June  28,  1915)  as  follows: 

"  England  has  not  abused  her  power  at  sea,  .  .  .  any  more 
than  previous  to  the  present  war  you  have  abused  your  power 
on  land.  Not  only  has  she  not  stood  in  the  way  of  your  de- 
velopment, but  on  the  contrary  she  has  given  you  fair  and 
free  access  to  her  markets,  with  unparalleled  liberality. " 

In  fact,  it  was  so  " unparalleled"  that  by  August,  1914, 
German  commercial  houses  had  crowded  out  of  Singapore 
every  British  house  save  two!  Wherever  the  British  flag 
went,  prior  to  the  war,  along  with  it  went  the  German  trader. 

But,  like  the  horseleech,  Germany's  cry  was  for  "More"; 
and  to  get  it  "British  sea  power  must  be  crushed!" 

Unmitigated  rapacity,  in  men  or  in  nations,  ever  has  been 
and  always  will  be  a  colossal  blunder. 

3.    THE  BLUNDER  OF  WORLD-WIDE  TREACHERY. 

While  America  was  sound  asleep  in  the  lap  of  Peace,  and 
England  slumbered  with  only  her  sea  eye  open,  Germany 
armed  herself  to  the  teeth,  and  planted  throughout  England, 
France,  America,  Belgium,  Holland,  Russia  and  India  the 
most  colossal  spy-and-traitor  system  ever  developed.  She 
secretly  armed  her  African  colonies  so  that  on  receipt  of  the 
famous  "  Willie-is-ill"  telegram,  each  one  of  her  colonies  in- 
stantly was  ready  to  fight. 

In  1911,  while  crossing  Lake  Tanganyika,  Central  Africa, 
on  a  steamer,  an  American  lady  said  to  a  German  officer  who 
sat  beside  her  at  the  dinner  table,  "Have  you  and  your  com- 
rade been  shooting?"  "Not  yet!"  said  the  officer,  signifi- 
cantly ;  whereat  his  brother  officer  laughed  heartily,  as  if  at  a 
good  joke.  Later  it  became  known  that  the  business  of  those 
two  officers  was  the  supplying  of  machine  guns  to  German 
East  Africa.  And  still  later  it  was  learned  that  those  guns 
were  shipped  to  Dar-es-Salaam  in  piano-boxes,  marked 
"Pianos."  No  wonder  Dar-es-Salaam  was  so  ready  to  begin 
fighting  on  August  2,  1914 ! 

There  are  times  when  the  blunderings  of  German  "states- 
men" are  so  crude  and  raw  that,  when  they  harm  no  one, 

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they  are  comical.  Even  amid  the  horrors  of  war  all  America 
is  laughing  over  the  wholesale  discomfiture  and  final  undoing 
of  Dr.  Dumba,  Papen,  Boy-Ed  (an  anything-but-precocious 
Boy),  and  Bernstorff,  by  a  restless  American  newspaper  man 
with  a  taste  for  amateur  detective  work  after  amateur  crooks. 

One  would  naturally  suppose  that  men  officially  designated 
by  their  wise  and  honorable  government  to  play  dirty  tricks 
on  the  people  of  a  friendly  nation  would  at  least  have  as 
much  intelligence  as  ordinary  horses  and  dogs.  But,  no ;  not 
so  with  that  Austro-German  galaxy  of  shining  stars. 

One  lonesome  and  harmless  American  newspaper  man,  John 
R.  Rathom,  of  the  Providence  Journal,  had  the  gall  to  plant 
an  employee  in  a  secretarial  position  at  Excellency  von 
Bernstorff 's  elbow.  Also,  he  put  a  bright  American  girl 
stenographer  (with  a  red  pencil)  in  the  office  of  the  Austrian 
Consul-General  in  New  York.  And  not  content  with  those 
outrages,  he  generously  planted  an  office  on  each  side  of  the 
German  fake-passport  factory  in  New  York,  instead  of  on  one 
side  only. 

And  it  was  a  Providence  Journal  man  who  with  most 
criminal  carelessness  changed  portfolios  with  the  astute  Dr. 
Albert  of  Austria,  and  staged  a  fight  in  a  street  car, — without 
extra  charge, — while  that  horrible  mistake  was  being  made. 
And  the  saddest  part  of  it  all  is  that  nearly  forty-eight  long 
hours  elapsed  ere  the  lynx-eyed  Doctor  noticed  the  substitu- 
tion, and  made  a  fuss  about  it. 

Mr.  Rathom 's  most  delightful  story  is  of  his  girl  stenog- 
rapher sitting  demurely  on  a  big  box  of  incriminating  papers, 
just  prior  to  its  shipment  to  Germany,  sharing  her  frugal 
lunch  with  the  shrewd  Papen,  and  dreamily  drawing  two 
large  red  hearts  on  the  box-cover,  to  which  the  sentimental 
Von  thoughtfully  and  tenderly  added  a  red  transfixing  arrow. 
This  spooning  led  to  the  cheap  and  easy  identification  of  the 
box  in  Merrie  England.  It  reads  like  a  foolishly  impossible 
romance ;  but  the  joke  of  it  is,  it  is  quite  true. 

1 '  Oh,  mon !  but  it  was  peetif ul ! ' ' 

With  all  their  training  in  treachery,  and  education  in  plot- 
ting and  lying  and  concealment,  Dumba,  Bernstorff,  Papen, 
Boy-Ed  and  Albert  were  one  and  all  the  most  stupid  donkeys 
that  ever  came  down  the  pike.  Not  one  of  them  knew  the  first 
principles  of  the  self -protection  system  that  (temporarily) 
keeps  expert  liars  and  thieves  and  forgers  from  being  caught. 
Just  fancy  keeping  check-stubs,  and  receipts,  and  copies  of 

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letters,  in  lawless  proceedings !  Great  is  ' '  German  thorough- 
ness"— in  being  caught  with  the  goods  by  an  amateur  sleuth, 
acting  on  his  own  brass  hook. 

Mr.  Rathom,  who  has  enough  to  laugh  over  at  the  expense  of 
Deutschland-iiber-alles  for  the  rest  of  his  life,  has  not  shown  to 
the  world  more  than  one-twentieth  of  his  mirth-provoking  ma- 
terials. But  how  we  do  wish  that  by  hook  or  by  crook  William 
the  Witless  might  be  told  just  how  stupid  his  diplomatic  rep- 
resentatives really  were,  and  how  much  their  stupidity  helped 
the  Allies. 

It  has  been  said  that  liars  need  long  memories ;  and  it  can 
safely  be  added  that  they  also  need  as  much  intelligence  as  pet 
monkeys.  A  rogue  who  pays  his  fellow  rogues  by  checks  on 
his  bank  account  is  utterly  hopeless.  The  only  proper  place 
for  him  is  the  cooling  room  of  an  asylum  for  idiots. 

The  playgrounds  of  the  great  American  schoolboy  have  pro- 
duced many  a  nugget  of  worldly  wisdom.  One  of  them  is  the 
unanswerable  admonition  that  * '  Cheating  never  thrives. ' ' 

All  mankind  hates  treachery  under  the  cloak  of  friendship. 
After  Boy-Ed,  Papen,  Bernstorff,  Dumba  and  Albert,  what 
will  we  think  of  the  Germans  and  Austrians  who  are  sent  to  us 
after  the  war,  to  represent  their  governments?  How  can 
Americans  regard  them  as  anything  else  than  spies  and  traitors 
of  the  same  brands  as  their  predecessors,  who  will  lie  to  us,  and 
knife  us  in  the  back  as  often  and  as  deeply  as  the  interests  of 
their  governments  may  seem  to  require?  All  such  "diplo- 
mats ' '  deserve  to  be  hanged  by  the  governments  to  which  they 
are  sent.  Fancy  the  next  "His  Excellency,  the  German  Am- 
bassador" being  presented  to  the  President  of  the  United 
States  a  few  months  from  now,  shaking  hands,  and  proffering 
"friendship"! 

4.    THE  BLUNDER  IN  GERMANY'S  CONTEMPT  OF 

ENGLAND. 

Among  fighters,  only  the  fool  will  underrate  his  adversary. 
Per  contra,  it  is  only  the  fool  who  overestimates  his  own 
strength.  The  Germans  of  Germany  made  both  those  blunders. 

The  German  navy  is  a  strange  mixture,  of  brave  men  and 
cowards,  of  gallant  gentlemen  and  murderous  curs ;  and  all  of 
them  are  directed  by  asses.  No  sooner  is  a  gallant  feat  of  sea- 
manship recorded  and  acclaimed  than  it  is  completely  be- 
clouded and  besmirched  by  some  act  of  dirty  cruelty  which 

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turns  admiration  into  loathing.  The  history  of  German  naval 
doings  in  this  war  is  like  a  checkerboard  of  black  and  white 
squares;  but  the  few  remaining  white  squares  are  rapidly 
turning  black. 

In  commerce-raiding  the  Germans  are  great ;  and  the  U-boat 
is  a  wonder.  The  more  humble  the  prey,  the  better  for  the 
boat.  But  the  U-boat  is  mighty  careful  not  to  tackle  a  de- 
stroyer, and  take  a  sporting  chance ;  and  when  he  finds  that  his 
tramp-freighter  prey  is  armed,  he  feels  that  he  is  indeed  in  hard 
luck.  His  favorite  warfare  is  fighting,  with  torpedoes  and  guns 
galore,  unarmed  fishing  smacks  and  rusty  tramp  steamers.  His 
favorite  order  is :  '  *  Fire  when  you  see  them  spit  on  the  bait ! ' ' 

And  now  he  has  taken  on  the  habit  of  shelling  life-boats 
loaded  to  the  gunwales  with  helpless  crews,  and  sending  them 
all  to  the  bottom.  Sometimes  the  gallant  U-boat  captain  comes 
close  up,  and  he  and  his  crew  come  out  and  jeer  at  drowning 
men  and  women  as  they  struggle  in  icy  waters. 

The  German  High  Seas  Fleet  is  grand — at  running  for  cover 
whenever  the  British  get  a  chance  at  it.  The  manner  in  which 
the  Bluecher  was  left  to  its  fate  while  all  the  other  gallant 
battleships  of  the  German  fleet  madly  scuttled  for  the  Kiel 
Canal,  had  its  comical  side;  but  it  was  truly  typical  of  the 
Kaiser 's  navy.  It  is  said  that  after  that  event  Tirpitz  provided 
his  naval  code  with  a  new  signal,  reading,  "Every  man  for 
himself,  and  England  take  the  hindmost. " 

Germany's  bid  for  the  supremacy  of  the  seas  was  far  too 
low ;  and  it  has  cost  her  heavily. 

5.    BLUNDERING  ESTIMATES  OF  NATIONAL  IDEALS. 

It  is  natural  for  a  wolf  to  take  a  wolf's  point  of  view;  but 
often  it  is  expensive  to  the  wolf. 

Germany's  big  men  who  have  been  masquerading  as  "states- 
men" have  been  proven  by  the  logic  of  events  to  be  the  most 
colossal  blunderers  the  world  has  ever  seen ;  and  of  them  Kaiser 
Wilhelm  is  the  chief. 

They  had  it  figured  out  (1)  that  Italy  would  necessarily  cast 
in  her  lot  with  the  nation  who  had  robbed  her  of  her  Adriatic 
provinces,  and  with  the  other  nation  who  by  crafty  methods 
had  grasped  her  commerce,  railroads  and  banks  by  the  throat 
with  a  German  grip  not  pleasant  to  feel. 

(2).— They  believed  that  Belgium  would,  for  the  sake  of 
"peace,"  submit  to  being  overrun  and  converted  into  a  Ger- 

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man  camp,  with  the  ultimately  certain  seizure  and  retention  of 
the  port  of  Antwerp. 

(3). — They  believed  that  because  of  having  no  army  worth 
mentioning,  and  for  Irish  and  Indian  reasons,  England  could 
be  bribed  into  a  state  of  degrading  passivity  while  Germany 
completely  destroyed  her  ally,  France.  And  Chancellor  Holl- 
weg  nearly  wept  when  he  could  not  convince  Sir  Edward 
Goschen  that  a  pledge  of  neutrality  was  a  thing  to  be  ignored 
at  will,  and  that  a  solemn  international  treaty  was  only  "a 
scrap  of  paper."  In  failing  to  understand  that  England  pos- 
sesses a  sense  of  national  honor  to  which  Germany  was  a  total 
stranger,  which  bore  no  taint  of  either  commercialism  or 
cowardice,  and  which  Britons  throughout  the  world  will  main- 
tain with  all  their  lives,  regardless  of  cost,  the  Chancellor  and 
Jagow  made  a  strictly  German  blunder,  which  no  child  with  a 
taste  for  history  ever  should  have  made.  On  this  point  the 
stupidity  of  the  Kaiser  and  his  cabinet  looms  up  like  the 
Pyramid  of  Cheops.  They  judged  the  English  by  themselves. 

6.    BLUNDERING  WITH  AMERICA. 

Germany's  chief  blunder  regarding  America  was  due  to  her 
contempt  for  this  sleepy,  easy-going,  unarmed,  peace-loving 
nation  of  Quixotic  chivalry  toward  small  nations,  or  big  ones 
that  are  weak,  and  her  utterly  grotesque  worship  of  riches  and 
luxury.  On  no  other  hypothesis  is  it  possible  to  account  for 
the  endless  series  of  insults,  injuries  and  treacheries  that  were 
handed  out  to  the  United  States  from  the  early  sinking  of  the 
Robert  Dollar  down  to  the  final  declaration  of  ruthless  sub- 
marine war  on  American  commerce  and  American  lives. 

Never  in  all  the  history  of  nations  did  any  strong  nation  ever 
endure  without  war  one  one-hundredth  part  of  the  causes  for 
war  that  were  heaped  upon  us  by  Germany  between  August  1, 
1914,  and  the  final  severance  of  relations.  For  the  sake  of 
"peace"  with  a  mad-dog  military  despotism,  we  endured  in- 
sults, injuries  and  murders  until  the  whole  world  looked  at  us 
in  stupefied  amazement.  Why,  in  the  first  year  of  our  Civil 
War,  we  came  te  the  very  verge  of  war  with  England  because 
we  halted  at  sea  the  British  steamer  Trent,  and  took  from  it,  as 
ordinary  prisoners  of  war,  the  two  Confederate  commissioners, 
Mason  and  Slidell.  But  Germany  sank  scores  of  American 
ships,  and  drowned  hundreds  of  Americans, — and  still  we  went 
on  seeking  to  avoid  the  clash  of  arms. 

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But,  always  ' '  Beware  the  fury  of  a  patient  man ! ' ' 
Now  that  we  have  put  our  hand  to  the  plough,  the  furrow 
will  be  turned  to  the  uttermost  finish,  whether  it  takes  one  year 
or  ten  years.  We  will  not  leave  a  living  Pfafner, — a  great, 
stinking  German  military  dragon, — as  a  heritage  for  our 
children. 

7.    THE  BLUNDER  OF  "FRIGHTFULNESS." 

There  are  some  blunders  that  dogs  and  horses,  and  even  sen- 
sible wild  animals,  do  not  commit.  Of  all  the  stupidities  of 
the  German  people,  the  crowning  glory  of  their  blundering  is 
their  idea  that  German  savagery  and  * ' f rightf ulness "  could 
so  appal  their  enemies  that  they  would  be  paralyzed  by  the 
shock  of  atrocities,  and  purchase  peace  at  any  price.  It  is  diffi- 
cult to  believe  that  such  fantastic  theories  as  these  originated 
anywhef^  outside  of  a  madhouse.  No  words  at  our  command 
can  so  well  describe  this  situation  as  do  the  words  of  a  once- 
German,  of  New  York  and  of  Kuhn,  Loeb  &  Company,  Mr. 
Otto  H.  Kahn.  They  were  written  on  June  28,  1915,  to  a  rela- 
tive in  Germany,  and  published  in  the  N.  Y.  Times  of  July 
4,  1917. 

"The  theory  of  '  f  rightf  ulness '  in  the  conduct  of  warfare 
which  Germany  now  preaches  and  practices  is  no  new  discov- 
ery. On  the  contrary,  it  is  a  very  ancient  one, — so  old,  in  fact, 
that  long  ago  it  came  to  be  discarded  and  superseded  in  Euro- 
pean warfare,  and  passed  into  the  limbo  of  forgotten  things. 
There,  until  resurrected  by  your  countrymen,  it  lay  for  genera- 
tions, along  with  much  else  that  the  human  race  had  overcome 
and  left  behind  in  the  progress  of  culture  and  humanity, — a 
progress  achieved  by  strenuous  toil,  sacrifices  and  suffering  in 
the  course  of  many  centuries. 

"And  what  have  you  gained  from  your  'f  rightf  ulness'? 
Your  victories  have  been  due  to  quite  other  qualities.  By 
your  'f  rightf  ulness'  you  have  steeled  your  enemies  to  the 
utmost  limit  of  sacrifice;  you  have  embittered  neutral  opin- 
ion; you  have  disappointed  and  grieved  your  friends,  and 
sown  dragon's  teeth,  the  offspring  of  which  will  arise  against 
you  many  years,  even  after  the  conclusion  of  peace." 

These  are  indeed  words  of  wisdom  and  truth.  Even  after 
the  conclusion  of  peace,  the  exponents  of  ' '  f  rightf  ulness ' '  and 
the  knights  of  the  "skull-cracker''  will  be  accorded  a  hell  of 
their  own. 

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8.    THE  BLUNDER  AS     TO  AMERICANS  OF  GER- 
MAN DESCENT. 

One  of  Germany's  colossal  blunders  was  her  estimate  of  the 
sentiments  and  principles  of  German-born  people  who  have 
made  their  homes  in  America,  and  the  American  sons  and 
daughters  of  German-born  parents.  German  statesmen  whose 
criminal  wishes  shaped  their  thoughts  sincerely  believed  that 
the  admiration  and  love  of  the  Kaiser's  despotism,  including 
even  the  military  iron  heel,  was  so  great  that  the  influence  of 
American  liberty,  open-hearted  hospitality  and  vast  opportu- 
nity would  count  for  naught  when  the  Kaiser  cracked  his  whip. 

The  Simple  Simons  of  Wilhelmstrasse  actually  believed  that 
in  any  struggle  with  America,  all  Americans  of  German  an- 
cestry necessarily  would  be  traitors  to  their  own  hearthstones, 
and  would  rise  en  masse,  fully-armed,  cobra-like,  to  strike  the 
government  of  the  United  States.  Being  themselves  ruthlessly 
devoted  to  the  idea  of  might  and  conquest,  and  the  merciless 
subjugation  of  small  and  weak  nations,  they  judged  their  kin- 
dred in  America  by  their  own  rotten  standards.  They  fool- 
ishly assumed  that  a  German  forty  years  in  America  would 
willingly  become  a  black-hearted  traitor  to  the  land  that  for 
years  had  sheltered  him,  and  made  much  of  him, — simply 
because  the  ruthless  builders  of  modern  Germany  had  endeav- 
ored to  keep  a  grip  on  him,  and  had  willed  that  he  should  obey 
their  orders. 

,  But  the  people  of  America  made  no  mistakes  of  that  kind. 
They  recognized  that  so  long  as  the  United  States  was  not  at 
war  with  Germany,  the  sympathy  of  all  Americans  of  German 
descent  would  be  against  the  Allies.  That  was  as  natural  as  it 
is  for  water  to  run  down  hill.  But  when  war  with  Germany 
was  declared,  after  a  multitude  of  insults  and  injuries  and  too 
many  efforts  at  avoidance,  the  native  American  felt  no  serious 
misgiving  regarding  the  great  body  of  Americans  of  German 
ancestry.  All  that  they  did  fear  was  the  crazy  possibilities  of 
individual  hot-heads ;  and  it  was  pointed  out  to  German-Ameri- 
cans that  the  insane  and  treasonable  acts  of  such  irresponsibles 
might  easily  involve  great  masses  of  perfectly  innocent  people. 
The  Americans  of  German  descent  sternly  forbade  all  such 
folly  by  their  people,  and  it  will  be  a  pleasure  for  the  historians 
of  these  times  to  record  the  fact  that  the  German-born  Ameri- 
cans have,  as  a  mass,  elected  to  be  Americans  first,  and  the 
others  have  wisely  feared  to  be  openly  hostile  to  the  United 
States. 

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Except  the  Anarchists,  Socialists  and  I.  W.  Ws.,  American 
ideals  have  made  lasting  impressions  upon  many  of  our  people 
whose  veins  contain  foreign  blood,  though  not  upon  all.  Young 
Ernest  and  Heinrich  are  in  the  National  Guard,  and  lads  Au- 
gust and  Herman  are  in  the  Boy  Scouts,  busy  saluting  the 
flag ;  and  all  are  quite  ready  to  fight  for  the  only  home  country 
that  they  know.  They  are  not  in  the  ranks  of  the  alien  mal- 
contents who  are  organized  to  fight  all  American  efforts  at 
national  defense.  But  we  will  deal  with  that  element. 

The  brutal  German  government,  and  the  odious  Junkers, 
now  frantically  lying  to  the  people  of  Germany  and  ruthlessly 
concealing  the  truth  from  them,  have  few  allies  in  the  United 
States  save  the  spies  and  traitors  planted  here  for  spy  pur- 
poses. There  will  be  no  * '  uprising  of  Germans ' '  here.  The  ex- 
tinguishment by  the  Providence  Journal  of  the  reptilian  Bern- 
storff,  the  chuckleheaded  Boy-Ed,  the  blundering  Papen,  and 
Dumba  the  easy  mark,  effectually  ended  the  treasonable  plots 
that  aided  very  materially  in  opening  the  chasm  between  the 
United  States  and  Germany,  and  driving  the  United  States 
whole-heartedly  into  the  war.  Dumba  has  been  decorated  for 
his  part  in  all  this,  and  we  hope  his  fellow  plotters  will  be 
equally  appreciated. 

But  there  are  some  capital  blunders  that  Germany  never 
makes.  Her  people  are  an  absolute  unit,  in  body,  spirit  and 
resources,  in  backing  up  the  leaders  of  the  nation  in  the  hour 
of  strife  and  danger.  She  does  not  make  the  mistake  of  toler- 
ating traitors  and  assassins  at  home.  If  her  soldiers  mutinied 
on  the  firing  line,  and  refused  to  fight  the  enemy,  as  some  rot- 
ten-hearted Eussian  soldiers  recently  have  done  most  disas- 
trously, Germany  would  not  make  the  mistake  of  letting  one 
of  them  live  to  tell  it.  In  solidarity,  unity  of  purpose  and  de- 
votion to  the  nation's  policy,  the  German  people  are  a  shining 
example  to  America.  They  are  more  devoted  to  a  bad  cause 
than  our  slackers  and  traitors  are  to  a  good  one.  It  is  high 
time  for  us  to  teach  our  traitors  some  severe  lessons;  and  I 
warn  them,  one  and  all :  Beware ! 

And  now  what  about  Germany 's  crimes  ?  In  the  next  chap- 
ter, let  us  see. 


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II.    The  Crimes  of  Germany. 

In  the  affairs  of  the  individual  and  the  state,  we  hear  a  lot 
about  "crime"  and  "criminals";  but  it  is  an  idiotic  fact  that 
the  greatest  of  all  crimes,  those  committed  by  nations  on 
a  vast  scale,  rarely  are  spoken  of  as  crimes,  and  easily  are 
condoned  after  the  fighting  stops.  The  world  calls  them 
either  "wars"  or  "atrocities";  and  the  men  who  instigate 
them  never  are  spoken  of  as  criminals,  and  never  are  pun- 
ished as  such.  Is  it  not  curious? 

Still  less  is  the  author  of  an  inexcusable  war,  or  a  series  of 
brutal  atrocities,  hanged,  or  shot,  or  even  permanently  im- 
prisoned for  his  crimes.  What  fools  these  mortals  be ! 

In  our  civilization,  a  wife  who  ends  long  years  of  torture 
by  killing  a  brutal  husband,  always  is  tried,  sentenced,  and 
either  imprisoned  for  life,  or  executed.  This  asinine  world 
is  most  virtuous  in  the  punishment  of  weak  individuals;  but 
we  notice  that  it  rarely  tackles  the  job  of  meting  out  real 
justice  to  the  greatest  of  all  criminals.  After  this  war  is 
over,  will  any  criminal,  either  at  Berlin  or  Constantinople,  be 
hanged  or  shot  for  the  deliberate  slaughter  of  1,500,000  help- 
less Armenians,  or  for  any  of  the  hideous  crimes  committed 
in  this  war?  Not  on  your  life.  Mushy-hearted  individuals 
will  advise  that  they  be  treated  "magnanimously,"  and  will 
urge  that  we  "become  friends." 

The  world  has  grown  hardened  to  the  habit  of  lumping  the 
crimes  and  atrocities  of  organized  conflicts  together  under  a 
short  and  easy  word.  ' '  War ' '  is  made  to  cover  and  gloss  over 
millions  of  the  bloody  and  malicious  crimes  of  millions  of  men 
who  ought  to  be  punished  according  to  their  deserts.  I  am 
thinking  of  the  Kaiser,  Stenger,  Tirpitz  and  Hindenberg,  and 
the  Young  Turks  en  masse. 

The  Hague  conventions  did  their  utmost  to  reform  the 
world's  war  practices,  establish  an  international  code  of  war 
ethics,  and  thereby  reduce  the  horrors  of  armed  conflict.  But 
with  what  results  ? 

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Closely  following  those  well-meant  and  humane  efforts,  two 
nations,  Germany  and  Turkey,  have  given  the  world  a  con- 
tinuous performance  of  wholesale  murder,  rape,  burnings, 
drownings  and  starvation  such  as  the  world  never  before  saw, 
even  in  the  bloodiest  days  of  barbarism.  The  Turkish  crimes 
in  Armenia  must  be  computed  in  millions,  and  the  wanton 
murder  of  a  million  Armenians  is  directly  chargeable  to  the 
rulers  of  Germany,  who  deliberately  permitted  it  to  be  done. 

And  even  now,  many  good  people  who  refuse  to  concern 
themselves  with  the  woes  of  men  and  women  who  are  far 
away,  will  decry  all  attempts  to  punish  the  Germans  and 
Turks  for  their  crimes.  They  will  talk  about  "magnanimity 
in  peace  terms,"  and  a  quick  return  to  ante-bellum  friend- 
ships. Think  of  a  treaty  of  friendship  with  ravishers,  and 
with  the  murderers  of  women  and  children  and  prisoners ! 

All  sensible  men  know  that  the  proper  punishment  of  crimi- 
nals is  necessary  for  the  protection  of  society  from  wolves  and 
dragons,  and  for  the  general  welfare  of  mankind.  Unpun- 
ished crime  always  encourages  and  produces  more  crime. 
The  world  must  not  mistake  softness  of  head  for  soundness  of 
heart. 

It  is  indeed  high  time  that  criminal  nations  should  be  pun- 
ished for  their  crimes.  Are  any  nations  before  the  bar  of  the 
Court  of  Nations  charged  with  deliberate  and  premeditated 
crimes  against  helpless  humanity? 

Yes;  two.  Germany  and  Turkey  are  so  accused;  and  no 
power  on  earth  can  stop  the  trial !  Austria  comes  next. 

Let  us  call  first  the  case  of  Germany. 

In  opening  the  worst  of  these  two  cases,  we  distinctly  leave 
out  of  our  specifications  all  those  acts  which  may  be  put  down 
as  chargeable  to  the  ordinary  and  inevitable  horrors  of  war. 
At  the  same  time  we  must  remember  that  even  the  most  brutal 
prize  ring  has  its  rules  and  its  ethics,  which  are  rigidly  en- 
forced. Even  a  fighter  whose  face  is  being  beaten  to  a  pulp 
may  not  bite,  kick,  gouge,  or  strike  below  the  belt;  no,  not 
even  when  defeat  and  ruin  stare  him  in  the  face.  The  fight- 
ing must  be  "fair,"  or  the  decision  is  at  once  given  to  the 
recipient  of  the  "foul"  act. 

Until  Germany  invaded  Belgium,  and  Turkey  went  to  work 
to  exterminate  the  Armenians,  the  world  supposed  that  the 
Christian  nations  had  reformed,  that  all  civilized  nations  rec- 
ognized the  latest  international  code  of  ethics  in  war,  and 
would  live  up  to  it.  It  was  then  against  the  rules  of  civilized 

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warfare  to  shoot,  stab,  burn  or  beat  to  death  the  civilian  popu- 
lations of  captured  territory,  to  starve  prisoners,  to  kill  pris- 
oners and  wounded  men,  to  use  expanding  bullets,  to  rape 
women,  to  force  women  to  become  soldier's  prostitutes,  to 
poison  wells,  to  use  poison  in  any  form,  to  destroy  maliciously 
works  of  art,  science  and  literature;  to  sink  merchant  ships 
at  sea  without  assuring  the  safety  of  passengers  and  crew,  and 
to  bombard  cities  from  the  air  for  the  slaughter  of  their  help 
less  civilian  inhabitants. 

According  to  a  great  mass  of  official  records,  all  of  those 
barbarous,  cruel,  inhumane  and  wild-animal  acts  have  been 
done  by  Germany,  on  well-nigh  countless  occasions.  The  evi- 
dence is  thoroughly  conclusive.  The  German  soldiers  and 
sailors,  both  officers  and  men,  are  the  most  cruel  and  brutal 
criminals  of  all  the  world.  In  Servia  the  Austrian  record  is 
almost  as  rotten. 

In  1898,  Count  Goetzen  said,  regarding  the  treacherous  de- 
signs of  Germany  on  France,  England  and  America:  "If  you 
do  speak  of  this,  no  one  will  believe  you,  and  everyone  will 
laugh  at  you ! ' ' 

Today,  the  American  people  as  a  mass  do  not  know  more 
than  one  one-hundredth  part  of  the  crimes  of  Germany  dur- 
ing the  past  three  years.  The  reason  is  that  it  is  impossible 
to  place  before  them  the  great  mass  of  publications  and  docu- 
ments, such  as  that  which  now  lies  before  me,  that  is  necessary 
to  convey  full  knowledge  of  this  ghastly  subject.  Without 
this  evidence,  or  at  least  a  lengthy  digest  of  it,  the  utter  de- 
pravity of  the  German  Germans  is,  to  a  clean  and  humane 
American,  absolutely  incomprehensible.  It  takes  strong  nerves 
to  go  through  these  thousands  of  pages  of  printed  documents, 
and  scores  of  ghastly  pictures,  without  becoming  thoroughly 
shaken. 

It  is  not  a  pleasing  task  to  set  forth  the  details  of  revolting 
crimes,  but  it  now  has  become  very  necessary  that  all  Ameri- 
cans, of  South  America  as  well  as  North,  should  be  shown  the 
true  character  of  the  soldiers  and  civilians  of  Germany,  and 
the  men  in  high  places  who  have  ordered  and  fostered  the 
high  crimes  of  the  past  three  years.  This  is  no  time  to  side- 
step the  truth  regarding  the  deadliest  foes  of  human  liberty 
and  the  rights  of  man. 

By  way  of  illustration.  Consider  the  character  of  the  Ger- 
man crown  prince, — the  hero(?)  of  Verdun.  When  in  Za- 
bern  the  highborn  German  Captain  Forstner  beat  a  lame 

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Alsatian  shoemaker  with  his  sword,  for  being  " short"  in  love 
for  his  German  masters.  When  a  great  outcry  was  raised  out- 
side of  Germany,  the  precious  crown-princeling  telegraphed  the 
brave  and  gallant  Forstner,  "Fester  d'rauf!"  which  means 
"Hit  him  again!"  Forstner  was  promoted,  for  gallantry  on 
the  field,  of  course.  (New  York  Times,  July  15.) 

In  making  up  this  all  too  brief  exposition,  I  shall  set 
down  neither  facts  nor  conclusions  save  those  that  are  sup- 
ported by  an  abundance  of  evidence  such  as  might  well  be 
offered  in  any  court  of  law.  The  most  damaging  evidences  of 
German  crimes  and  atrocities  are  those  that  have  been  col- 
lected from  German  sources! 

The  "peace  resolutions"  introduced  in  the  German  Reich' 
stag  say : 

' '  Germany  took  up  arms  in  defense  of  its  liberty  and  inde 
pendence,  and  for  the  integrity  of  its  territories. ' ' 

All  the  world  now  knows  that  both  those  statements  are 
brazen  lies,  and  that  the  people  of  Germany  started  the  war 
as  a  war  of  conquest,  and  nothing  else.  But  the  lying  leaders 
of  Germany,  including  the  70  men  of  science  who  signed  and 
sent  out  their  now  famous  manifesto  late  in  1914,  have  for 
three  long  years  been  injecting  that  falsehood  into  the  igno- 
rant masses  of  Germany,  to  make  them  feel  like  fighting  and 
going  hungry. 

No.  Germany's  whining  plea  that  she  is  "fighting  for  her 
very  existence"  is  no  , excuse  whatever  for  her  diabolical 
crimes.  No  one  is,  or  has  been,  seeking  to  "destroy"  Ger- 
many, or  anything  German,  save  only  her  domineering,  dan- 
gerous and  thoroughly  accursed  military  power.  Even  in 
the  prize  ring  all  such  excuses  as  that  are  ruled  out ;  and  the 
fear  of  being  beaten  in  a  fight  is  no  excuse  for  crime,  nor 
even  for  brutality  in  method. 

One  curious  psychological  fact  is  to  be  noted  at  the  very 
outset.  It  is  this : 

The  moment  the  average  German  dons  a  military  uniform, 
and  becomes  a  soldier,  with  deadly  weapons  in  his  hands,  he  ia 
at  once  transformed  as  if  by  magic  into  a  cruel  monster. 
Frequently  he  becomes  a  savage  and  bloodthirsty  dragon ;  and 
it  would  be  a  gross  libel  on  the  lower  animals  to  call  him  a 
beast.  He  becomes  a  stranger  to  the  feelings  of  the  home- 
loving  husband,  father,  son  or  churchman.  In  the  name  of 
"Germany,"  and  "war,"  he  is  ready  to  commit  any  atrocity 

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and  write  it  down,  exultingly,  in  his  diary.  Ah !  those  soldier 
diaries!  There  is  where  German  efficiency  unwittingly  pro- 
vided instruments  for  the  punishment  of  Gjgrman  crimes. 

But  the  German  in  uniform  is  not  the  only  agent  of  hate 
and  brutality.  "The  people  of  Germany"  are  only  one  short 
step  behind  him.  Let  every  person  who  doubts  this  send  five 
cents  to  the  Saturday  Evening  Post,  Philadelphia,  for  its 
issue  of  July  14,  1917,  and  on  page  16  read  "Englander 
Schwein"  ("English  Swine")  the  diary  of  Corporal  Edwards, 
of  Canada's  top  regiment,  the  Princess  Patricia's  C.L.I.,  who 
was  captured  by  the  Germans.  Read  it,  if  you  have  in  your 
heart  even  one  soft  spot  for  "the  people  of  Germany." 

It  is  a  story  of  revolting  filth  inflicted  upon  refined  gentle- 
men, of  three  days  utterly  needless  hunger  torture  inflicted 
on  half -starved  men  taken  out  of  their  cars  three  times  a  day, 
lined  up  and  compelled  to  watch  German  soldiers  stuffed 
with  food  by  German  women,  with  "Nein!"  "Nein!"  to  them 
when  they  begged  for  food.  It  is  a  story  of  horribly  neglected 
wounds,  arms  rotting  off,  slow  starvation  in  the  prison  camp 
on  food  consisting  of  200  gallons  of  water  to  one  small  bag 
of  potatoes,  and  so  forth. 

Of  the  murders  and  mutilations  in  the  trenches  there  is 
not  time  to  speak.  But  read  this  account  of  the  treatment 
the  Canadians  received  along  the  railway  from  the  women 
of  Germany, — even  "gentlewomen": 

"The  mob  surged  around  us,  heaping  on  us  insults  and 
blows;  particularly  the  women.  They  spat  on  us,  with  hate 
in  their  eyes.  We  had  to  take  that,  or  the  bayonet.  These 
were  the  acts  not  only  of  the  rabble,  but  also  of  the  people  of 
good  appearance  and  address.  One  very  well-dressed  woman 
came  rushing  up.  Under  other  circumstances  I  would  have 
judged  her  to  be  a  gentlewoman.  She  was  screaming  invec- 
tives at  us  as  she  forced  her  way  through  the  crowd. 
'Schwein!'  she  screamed,  and  struck  at  the  man  next  me. 
Then,  drawing  deep  from  the  very  bottom  of  her  lungs,  she 
spat  the  mass  full  in  his  face. ' ' 

In  essaying  to  give  in  one  article  even  an  outline  sketch  of 
the  crimes  of  Germany,  one  is  perplexed  by  the  many  different 
kinds  of  atrocities,  and  the  great  mass  of  instances  and  proofs 
bearing  upon  them.  Out  of  it  all  there  thrusts  up  the  ugly 
fact,  like  a  spear  from  a  pile  of  corpses,  that  many  of  these 

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crimes  were  committed  intentionally,  with  malice  afore- 
thought, and  often  were  deliberately  ordered  by  German 
officers,  both  high  and  low.  For  example : 

General  Stenger  issued  a  printed  order  to  kill  all  the 
wounded ; 

Bissing  was  the  refined  torturer  of  all  Belgium,  in  many 
orders ; 

Manteuffel  was  the  chief  murderer  at  Louvain; 

Bulow  and  Schonmann  were  the  wild  beasts  of  Ardenne; 

And  it  was  Bayer  at  Dinant,  Bohn  at  Sommerfeld  and 
Termonde;  Nieher  at  Wavre;  Wittenstein  at  Clermont-en- 
Argonne,  and  so  on  until  you  are  tired. 

1.    THE  MURDER  OF  CIVILIANS. 

This  flourishing  German  industry  began  at  Louvain,  at  the 
very  outbreak  of  the  war,  and  has  continued  right  down  to 
the  present.  It  is  astounding  to  see  how  quickly  murders 
began,  with  the  most  revolting  brutality,  immediately  after 
the  Germans  entered  Belgium!  Sometimes  the  excuse  was 
made  that  "Mann  hat  geschossen ' ', — that  "civilians  have 
fired"; — and  then  the  indiscriminate  slaughter  began. 

The  thick  volume  of  "Evidence"  taken  by  the  Bryce  Com- 
mission on  the  German  Atrocities  is  crowded  full  of  testi- 
mony ;  and  so  are  many  subsequent  publications  of  the  British 
and  French  governments.  The  stories  written  down  in  their 
diaries  by  German  soldiers  are  both  terrible  and  amazing. 
In  an  uncountable  number  of  villages  old  men,  old  women, 
boys,  girls,  women  and  children  were  shot  by  dozens  and  by 
hundreds;  and  hundreds  were  stabbed  to  death  by  bayonets. 

There  are  sickening  accounts,  from  eye-witness  testimony, 
of  German  soldiers  bayoneting  children  and  girls,  but  the 
most  spectacular  crime  of  that  kind  was  committed  at 
Malaines  (d4,  Bryce  Evidence),  when  a  German  soldier  walk- 
ing down  the  main  street,  singing,  "drove  his  bayonet  with 
both  hands  through  a  living  child 's  stomach,  lifting  the  child 
into  the  air  on  his  bayonet,  and  carrying  it  away  on  his 
bayonet,  he  and  his  comrades  still  singing."  (Page  82.) 

In  the  village  of  Sempst,  an  Uhlan  cut  off  the  breast  of  a 
woman  with  his  sword ;  and  a  little  boy  was  burned  to  death 
in  an  attic.  (K.  33.)  At  Aerschot  a  girl  of  18  or  20  was 
found  "absolutely  naked,  with  her  abdomen  cut  open",  and 
"her  body  covered  with  bruises,  showing  that  she  had  made 
a  struggle. ' '  Jack  the  Ripper  in  a  spiked  helmet ! 

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And  again  at  Aerschot  (C.  38)  did  the  German  Jack  get 
in  his  work  on  another  girl  of  18.  She  was  found  (d<*«d) 
with  "her  arms  nailed  to  the  door  in  extended  fashion,  .  .  . 
her  left  breast  cut  away,  and  numerous  bayonet  wounds  in 
the  chest,  some  piercing  through  to  the  back."  (Told  by  a 
Belgian  soldier,  who  helped  to  recapture  the  place.) 

A  British  subject  saw  on  September  15,  1914,  in  the 
Wetteren  Hospital,  a  girl  of  11  from  Alost  with  17  bayonet 
thrusts  in  her  back,  "practically  flayed,  and  at  the  point  of 
death. "  (F.  13. )  "  Out  of  the  1300  inhabitants  of  Noumeny, 
at  least  150  were  killed  (murdered)  by  the  Germans." 
(French  Police  Report,  Aug.  24,  1914.) 

This  list  could  be  extended  by  hundreds  of  other  cases ;  and 
a  long  chapter  could  be  filled  with  such  instances  as  the  above. 
Geographically  they  reach  all  the  way  from  Louvain  to  the 
beginning  of  the  great  German  defeat  before  Paris. 

In  order  to  form  estimates  of  what  the  quiet  little  country 
villages  of  New  England  might  expect  if  the  armed  wolves 
and  mad  dogs  of  Germany  ever  gained  a  foothold  here,  let 
us  consider  a  few  figures  compiled  from  official  reports  and 
published  by  the  Illustrated  London  News.  They  relate  solely 
to  the  murder  of  unarmed,  inoffensive  civilians — old  men, 
women,  girls,  boys  and  children. 

In  Brabant  897  persons  shot  or  bayoneted. 

In  Luxembourg  Province,  over  1,000     "         "     "        " 
AtArlon  119      " 

Dinant  Arrondissement  (Fr.)      606  killed,  from  3  weeks  to 

77  years  old. 

Neufchatel  18  shot. 

Etalle  30    " 

Hondemont  11     1 1 

Tintiguy  157     " 

Izele  10     " 

Rossignol  106     " 

Bertrix  21     " 

Ethe  about    300  shot;  "530  in  all  miss- 

ing." 

Latour  only     17  men  left. 

Maissin  12  shot,  1  a  young  girl. 

Aloy  52  men  and  women  shot. 

Claireuse  2  men  hanged. 

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—and  so  on,  indefinitely.  On  the  most  trivial  pretexts,  or  none 
at  all,  the  Germans  slaughtered  unresisting  non-combatants 
who  were  in  their  power.  Out  of  a  lot  of  40  German  soldier 
diaries,  only  6  express  disapproval  or  disgust,  and  at  least  30 
diaries  treat  murders  either  exultingly  or  as  being  merely  a 
part  of  the  day 's  work. 

The  slaughtered  innocents  of  Belgium,  France,  Servia  and 
Poland  would,  in  each  of  those  countries,  undoubtedly  run  far 
up  into  thousands  if  it  were  possible  to  count  them. 

Thanks  to  the  diligence  of  the  British  and  French  govern- 
ments in  collecting  evidence  now  while  evidence  is  procurable, 
there  is  already  enough  printed  testimony  to  damn  Germany 
in  the  eyes  of  the  world  for  at  least  two  centuries. 

2.    KILLING  OF  PRISONERS  AND  WOUNDED  MEN 
BY  GERMANS. 

The  crimes  of  Germany  under  this  head  have  been  literally 
innumerable.  Judging  by  German,  French.  Belgian  and  Eng- 
lish evidence,  it  seems  as  if  German  soldiers  have  slaughtered 
probably  100,000  defenseless  prisoners  and  wounded  men. 
Prof.  J.  H.  Morgan  states  that  von  der  Goltz,  the  evil  genius  of 
Turkey, ' '  predicted  some  years  ago  that  the  next  war  would  be 
one  of  inconceivable  violence ' ' ;  and  he  declares  that  * '  the  Ger- 
mans have  no  sense  of  honor  in  the  field. "  He  was  hideously 
correct. 

German  prisoner  murder  began  before  Antwerp  on  October 
6,  1914,  when  the  Captain  of  the  85th  Regt.  IXth  Corps,  4th 
Company,  said  to  his  men : '  'I  do  not  want  to  see  any  English- 
men prisoners  in  the  hands  of  this  company ! "  To  which  the 
company  cried,  "Bravo!"  And  Richard  Gerhold,  71st  Regi- 
ment Reserve,  4th  Army  Corps  (killed  in  September,  1914), 
wrote  in  his  precious  diary  thus:  " Great  atrocities  are  of 
course  committed  upon  Englishmen  and  Belgians.  Every 
one  of  them  is  now  knocked  on  the  head  without  mercy." 

The  famous  Stenger  order  of  August  26,  1914,  brings  us  to 
a  capital  case.  A  German  Brigadier-General,  Stenger  by 
name,  issued  this  written  order  to  his  brigade : 

"To  date  from  this  day,  no  prisoners  will  be  made  any 
longer.  All  the  prisoners  will  be  executed.  The  wounded, 
whether  armed  or  defenseless,  will  be  executed.  Prisoners, 
even  in  large  and  compact  formations,  will  be  executed. 
Not  a  man  will  be  left  alive  behind  us." 

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The  instances  of  the  murder  of  helpless  prisoners  by  Ger- 
mans are  far  too  numerous  to  be  cited  in  detail.  Beyond  rea- 
sonable doubt,  a  hundred  thousand  soldiers  were  murdered  on 
the  Stenger  basis. 

And  after  the  war  is  over,  if  we  resume  friendly  " relations" 
with  Germany,  we  may  see  Stenger  in  Washington  as  Military 
Attache  to  his  Excellency  the  German  Ambassador,  shaking 
hands  with  the  President  of  the  United  States. 

3.    THE  BOMBING  OF  CIVILIANS  IN  LONDON  AND 
ELSEWHERE. 

The  Kaiser  and  Zeppelin,  and  the  German  people,  have  spent 
many  millions  of  dollars  in  deliberate  attempts  to  slaughter 
the  unarmed  inhabitants  of  London,  and  strafe  England.  All 
the  German  talk  about  attacking  "the  fortress  of  London"  is 
beneath  contempt.  Rarely  indeed  has  a  soldier  been  injured 
in  London,  or  any  other  English  city,  by  a  Zeppelin  or  an  air- 
plane bomb.  It  has  been  the  helpless  women,  school-children 
and  other  non-combatants  who  have  been  blown  to  pieces. 

These  murders  of  civilian  men,  women  and  children  have 
served  only  to  send  furious  Englishmen  rushing  to  the  trenches 
in  droves,  for  vengeance !  Had  the  square-heads  deliberately 
attempted  to  stimulate  British  enlistments,  the  dropping  of 
bombs  on  London  would  have  been  the  ideal  plan.  At  last 
the  British  public  demand  reprisals,  on  the  basis  of  an  eye  for 
an  eye  and  a  tooth  for  a  tooth ;  which  would  be  absolutely  right. 

But  thus  far  the  statesmen  of  England  firmly  say : 

"  No !  We  will  not  descend  to  the  low  level  of  the  Huns  of 
Germany. ' ' 

Nevertheless,  Zeppelin  died  of  a  broken  heart.  From  a  mili- 
tary point  of  view  his  campaign  has  proven  a  complete  fiasco, — 
just  as  Americans  long  ago  predicted  that  it  would,  and  his 
"frightfulness"  gas  bags  are  now  on  the  scrap-heap. 

4.    TIRPITZ  AND  THE  SUBMARINE  MURDERS. 

For  a  submarine  to  sink  a  war  vessel  with  all  on  board  is 
merely  war,  no  more  and  no  less.  No  one  whines  about  atroci- 
ties of  that  sort.  All  the  world  does  object,  however,  and  very 
strongly,  too,  to  the  sinking  of  unarmed  passenger  steamers, 
hospital  ships,  and  Belgian  relief  ships.  All  such  acts  of 
murder  as  these  are  the  acts  of  monsters,  not  of  men.  Of 

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course  we  know  that  Germany  sees  her  doom,  and  her  people 
are  wild  over  the  certainty  of  defeat.  But  even  a  90  per  cent, 
defeated  prize-fighter  must  not  deliver  a  foul  blow. 

The  submarine  murders  are  so  well  known  to  Americans  as 
to  require  no  comment;  but  a  few  murder  statistics  will  be 
worth  while,  lest  we  forget. 


March  28,  1915.  Steamer  Falaba  111  lost 

May  7,     "  "  Lusitania  1,198    " 

June  28,      "  "  Armenian  30    " 

Aug.  19,     "  "  Arabic  30    " 

Nov.  7,     "  "  Ancona  208   ." 

Dec.  30,     "  "  Persia  385    " 

March  24,  1916.  Sussex  (Channel  boat)        52    " 


HOSPITAL,  SHIPS  MALICIOUSLY  DESTROYED  BY  THE  GERMAN 

"NAVY." 

Portugal.    March  17,  1916 45  Red  Cross  nurses  lost. 

40  of  the  crew. 

Britannic.    Nov.,  1915 about  50  lost. 

Asturias.     March  20,  1915 43  lost. 

Gloucester  Castle.    March  30, 1915 .  all  wounded  saved. 

Donegal   41  lost. 

Lanfranc.     (152  wounded  Germans 

saved  by  the  British  Navy!) 19  British  wounded  lost. 

15  German  wounded  lost. 

On  a  very  few  occasions,  a  few  German  submarine  captains 
have  acted  humanely,  and  some  even  gallantly;  but  all  these 
acts  have  been  besmirched  by  the  acts  of  cowardly  and  brutal 
men  who  have  deliberately  fired  upon  hospital  ships  and  open 
life-boats  loaded  with  men  attempting  to  save  themselves 
from  drowning.  In  one  celebrated  instance  a  U-boat  captain 
and  his  crew  came  out  upon  their  deck,  and  at  close  range 
jeered  at  drowning  men  and  women  who  were  struggling  in 
icy  water. 

And  here  is  the  latest  feat  of  the  brave  and  gallant  German 
"navy": 

On  July  31,  1917,  200  miles  from  land  a  German  submarine 
engaged  in  combat  and  sank  the  unarmed  British  freighter, 
Belgian  Prince.  They  assembled  the  entire  crew  of  40  men 
on  the  submarine's  deck,  stripped  from  them  their  life-belts, 

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and  smashed  all  their  life-boats,  with  axes.     Then  the  brave 
Germans  went  below,  closed  their  hatches,  ran  on  the  surface 
for  two  miles,  then  suddenly  submerged.     Thirty-eight  were 
drowned,  but  two  lived  to  be  picked  up  and  tell  the  story. 
A  new  trick.     Look  for  frequent  repetitions. 

5.  POISON    GAS,    LIQUID    FIRE    AND    POISONED 

WELLS. 

Early  in  the  war  the  much-vaunted  German  "men  of  sci- 
ence "  invented  poisonous  gases  (chiefly  of  chlorine),  liquid 
fire  apparatus,  and  other  forms  of  deviltry  forbidden  in  civi- 
lized warfare.  The  ' '  flammenwerf er "  is  now  a  favorite  Ger- 
man institution ;  but  occasionally  it  gets  into  trouble  by  being 
exploded  by  shell  fire,  in  the  hands  of  the  men  using  it.  One 
result  of  poison  gas  and  liquid  fire  is  the  everlasting  odium 
that  it  has  fastened  upon  the  German  army.  The  British 
soldiers  say  that  "the  Germans  are  dirty  fighters";  and  the 
name  will  stick  forever. 

In  German  South-West  Africa,  when  the  Boer  General, 
Louis  Botha,  captured  Swakopmund  he  found  that  all  six  of 
the  wells  had  been  poisoned  with  arsenical  cattle-dip.  Bags 
of  the  poison  hung  in  the  wells;  and  the  crime  was  acknowl- 
edged and  defended  in  writing  by  Lieut. -Col.  Franke,  com- 
mander of  the  German  forces.  Previous  to  that  time,  the  new 
German  governor  had  murdered  in  cold  blood  208  of  the  lead- 
ing natives  of  the  capital  town,  to  teach  the  surviving  Hereros 
the  advantages  of  life  under  the  black  vulture  of  Germany. 

6.  BACTERIA     OF     GLANDERS     AND     ANTHRAX 

SENT  INTO  RUMANIA. 

* '  The  world  owes  much  to  German  science. ' '  This  remark 
is  not  original.  We  have  heard  it  about  147,500  times;  but 
the  world  has  not  heard  quite  so  often  how  the  worthy  "  scien- 
tists "  of  Germany  sent  large  collections  of  living  and  active 
bacilli  of  glanders  for  horses,  and  anthrax  for  cattle,  into 
Rumania,  under  the  German  diplomatic  seal,  just  before  war 
was  declared  by  Rumania !  The  precious  cultures  were  found 
buried  in  the  garden  of  the  German  consulate;  and  in  their 
usual  blundering  way,  the  dunderheads  did  not  know  enough 
to  Destroy  the  evidence  of  their  newest  species  of  crime.  All 
this  has  been  set  forth  by  the  Rumanian  government  in  a  neat 

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little  pamphlet,  very  useful  to  students  of  criminology  and 
degeneracy. 

7.    THE  MURDER  OF  EDITH  CAVELL. 

Not  in  two  hundred  years  will  the  world  forget  or  forgive 
this  dastardly  crime.  If  Bissing  is  not  now  in  hell  for  it, 
then  there  is  no  such  place.  The  cities  of  civilized  countries 
should  erect  Cavell  monuments,  and  name  streets  Cavell,  lest 
we  forget.  Only  Germans  or  Turks  could  have  done  a  deed 
so  unnecessary,  so  brutal  and  unchivalrous.  But  it  seems 
that  the  German  Germans  stick  at  no  atrocity. 

8.    THE  MURDER  OF  CAPTAIN  FRYATT. 

This  crime  was  committed  in  cold  blood,  unchecked  by  the 
criminal  Kaiser,  because  on  March  28,  1915,  Captain  Pryatt 
escaped  from  a  German  submarine  by  attempting  to  ram  it. 
On  June  23,  1916,  he  was  captured,  taken  to  Zeebrugge,  and 
by  a  naval  court  martial  sentenced  to  death.  Great  "sports" 
were  those  German  naval  officers!  They  have  in  their  veins 
about  as  much  sporting  blood  as  so  many  hyenas,  but  no  more. 

On  several  occasions  the  British  have  actually  honored  the 
fine  seamanship  and  daring  and  skill  of  German  sea  raiders, 
even  after  great  destruction  while  at  sea.  But  the  British 
navy  men  are  good  sports,  while  the  men  of  the  German  navy 
do  not  seem  to  recognize  a  bold  and  capable  seaman  when  they 
see  one;  and  they  have  no  sense  of  sportsmanship.  When 
did  the  German  navy  ever  rescue  a  British  or  French  sailor 
from  drowning?  But  British  sailors  have  saved  many  Ger- 
mans. 

The  murder  of  Captain  Fryatt  brands  the  whole  German 
navy  with  a  mark  that  it  will  wear  forever. 

9.    THE  GERMAN  OUTRAGES  UPON  WOMEN. 

It  is  here  that  the  pen  falters,  and  the  heart  turns  sick  with 
horror  and  loathing.  Thus  far  the  newspapers  of  the  United 
States  have  shrunk  from  printing  the  awful  details  that  have 
been  available  on  this  subject. 

For  fifty  years  we  have  been  reading  of  the  wars  of  nations, 
— white,  black,  red,  brown  and  yellow, — but  never  in  modern 
times  have  we  seen  such  ghastly,  such  loathsome,  such  shock- 
ing and  sickening  brutalities  of  lust  as  German  officers  and 

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soldiers  inflicted,  wholesale,  upon  the  women  of  Belgium  and 
northern  France.  At  present  we  will  say  little  of  Poland, 
for  the  subject  is  too  vast. 

I  shall  not  give  instances,  even  though  there  are  hundreds 
at  hand,  well  authenticated,  and  undoubtedly  true.  But  let 
all  Americans  remember  this :  Never  within  the  last  four  hun- 
dreds years  or  more  have  any  women  ever  been  so  brutally 
abused,  so  extensively  raped  by  violence,  often  accompanied 
by  murder  in  Jack  the  Ripper  fashion,  or  so  disgustingly  mal- 
treated before  the  eyes  of  fathers,  mothers,  sisters,  brothers 
and  groups  of  men  as  were  the  wretched  women  of  Belgium 
and  northern  France. 

The  rage  of  the  German  brutes  whose  great  conquest  of 
France  was  balked  seemed  to  be  visited  with  particular  fury 
and  cruelty  upon  the  women  of  the  captured  territory  be- 
tween fourteen  and  forty  years  of  age.  I  have  before  me  one 
instance  so  awful  and  so  revolting  that  the  woman  upon  whom 
it  was  inflicted  immediately  went  mad.  The  details  are  pub- 
lished only  in  French,  in  order  that  only  a  few  English-speak- 
ing persons  may  read  them. 

No  wonder  that  when  the  armies  of  General  Joffre  and 
General  Foch  were  chasing  the  German  ravishers  back  to  the 
banks  of  the  Marne,  that  the  French  women  of  the  recaptured 
towns  and  villages  dragged  themselves  to  their  windows, 
leaned  out,  and  begged  the  French  soldiers  to  "Take  no 
prisoners !  Kill  them,— all ! ' ' 

The  total  number  of  women  who  have  been  cruelly  abused 
by  German  officers  and  private  soldiers  never  will  be  known; 
but  it  must  run  up  into  hundreds  of  thousands.  Only  the 
devil  himself  knows  how  many  miserables  have  been  "given 
to  the  soldiers,"  just  as  was  the  Polish  maid  of  an  American 
lady,  Madame  Turczynowics,  now  in  New  York,  who  tells 
about  it  in  her  book,  "When  the  Prussians  Came  to  Poland" 
(page  138).  This  is  the  passage: 

"...  we  pushed  our  way  into  the  room  where  Manya  was, 
.  .  .  what  had  been  Manya.  .  .  .  An  officer  came  in  to  ask  our 
business  with  the  girl. 

"She  is  my  maid — stolen!  This  is  her  father.  I  have 
come  to  take  her  home. ' ' 

'.  *  I  am  very  sorry,  but  you  are  not  allowed  to  take  her.  She 
belongs  to  the  soldiers. ' ' 

"Don't  you  see,  Herr  Offizier,  the  girl  is  dying?" 

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"Ill  she  is,  and  shall  have  the  best  of  care.  We  have  a  doc- 
tor to  attend  to  just  such  cases." — And  I  had  to  leave  her! 

10.    GERMANY'S  COLOSSAL  CRIME  IN  ARMENIA. 

A  little  pamphlet  of  24  pages,  obtainable  from  the  G.  H. 
Doran  Company,  New  York,  for  five  cents,  is  quite  enough  to 
damn  Germany,  past  all  forgiveness,  from  now  to  the  end  of 
Time.  It  is  entitled  "The  Horrors  of  Aleppo.  Seen  by  a 
German  Eyewitness,"  and  it  is  "A  Word  to  Germany's  Ac- 
credited Representatives,  by  Dr.  Martin  Niepage,  Higher 
Grade  Teacher  in  the  German  Technical  School  at  Aleppo." 

The  enormous  extent,  and  the  extreme  savagery,  of  the 
slaughter  of  Armenian  Christians  by  the  Turkish  allies  of 
Germany  literally  stagger  the  imagination  and  sicken  the 
heart.  The  mind  can  scarcely  grasp  the  idea  of  men,  women 
and  children  being  massacred  en  masse,  in  1916,  literally  by 
the  thousand!  But  let  me  quote  a  few  lines  of  strictly  Ger- 
man testimony : 

Page  14.  "It  is  utterly  erroneous  to  think  that  the  Turk- 
ish government  will  refrain  of  its  own  accord  even  from  the 
destruction  of  the  women  and  children  unless  the  strongest 
pressure  is  exerted  by  the  German  government.  Only  just 
before  I  left  Aleppo  last  May  (1916)  the  crowds  of  exiles 
encamped  at  Ras-el-Ain  on  the  Bagdad  Railway,  estimated 
at  20,000  women  and  children,  were  slaughtered  to  the 
last  one." 

Page  11.  "Many  more  appalling  things  were  reported  by 
the  engineer  of  the  Bagdad  Railway  ...  or  by  German  trav- 
elers who  met  the  convoys  of  exiles  on  their  journeys.  Many 
of  these  gentlemen  had  seen  such  appalling  sights  they  could 
eat  nothing  for  days.  One  of  them,  Herr  Grief,  of  Aleppo, 
reported  corpses  of  violated  women  lying  about  naked  in  heaps 
on  the  railway  embankment  at  Tel-Abiad  and  Ras-el-Ain. 
Another,  Herr  Spiecker,  of  Aleppo,  had  seen  Turks  tie  Ar- 
menian men  together,  fire  several  volleys  of  small  shot  with 
fowling  pieces  into  the  human  mass,  and  go  off  laughing  while 
their  victims  slowly  perished  in  frightful  convulsions. 

"The  German  Consul  from  Mosul  related,  in  my  presence, 
at  the  German  Club  at  Aleppo,  that  in  many  places  on  the 
road  from  Mosul  to  Aleppo  he  had  seen  children's  hands 
hacked  off  in  such  numbers  that  one  could  have  paved  the 
road  with  them.  .  .  .  The  Arabs  of  the  village  declared  that 

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they  had  killed  the  Armenians  by  the  Government's  (Young 
Turks)  orders." 

— And  so  forth,  and  so  on,  until  you  are  sick ! 

Thus  do  the  "Young  Turks"  of  Turkey  (on  whom  may  all 
the  curses  of  Allah  alight)  who  are  determined  to  Turkify  all 
Asia  Minor.  Thus  have  1,500,000  Christians  perished,  at  the 
hands  of  Germany's  ally, — an  ally  absolutely  under  German 
control,  and  without  one  protest  or  prohibition  from  the  arch- 
criminals  of  Potsdam  and  Berlin.  And  this  under  * '  our  dear, 
good,  kind  Emperor"  William! 

The  crimes  of  Germany  were  not  committed  by  the  officers 
of  the  Army  or  the  Navy,  or  of  the  State,  alone.  They  were 
perpetrated  partly  by  the  common  people  of  Germany,  as 
represented  by  the  fathers,  sons  and  husbands  making  up 
the  army  and  the  navy.  The  officers  are  not  alone  to  blame. 
Therefore,  the  .curses  of  mankind,  and  the  punishment  of  the 
ages,  should  fall  and  will  fall  upon  all  the  Germans  of  Ger- 
many, and  their  children  unto  the  tenth  generation.  To  them 
the  Germans  of  to-day  will  bequeath  a  vast  legacy  of  world 
scorn  and  world  aversion. 

Americans  should  be  the  last  people  on  earth  to  talk  to 
outraged  England,  France,  Russia  and  Servia  of  "magnani- 
mous" terms  to  Germany,  and  peace  "without  annexations  or 
indemnities."  Germany  must  Pay  for  her  war  and  her 
crimes. 


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III.    The  Punishment  of  Germany. 

Without  stopping  to  give  any  serious  thought  to  the  mat- 
ter, some  people  assert,  "You  cannot  punish  a  nation. "  If 
not,  why  not  ?  Ask  a  student  of  history,  and  he  will  tell  you, 
without  hesitation,  "Decidedly,  yes.  Ever  since  the  days  of 
Sodom  and  Gomorrah,  countless  tribes,  cities,  states  and  na- 
tions have  been  soundly  punished  for  their  crimes. " 

To-morrow,  or  soon  after,  Germany,  the  arch-criminal  of 
nations,  will  be  up  before 'the  bar  of  Christian  Civilization  for 
sentence.  In  courts  of  justice  it  is  customary  to  review  the 
criminal  record  of  the  accused  before  judgment  is  pronounced. 
It  is  now  a  case  of  Germany  to  the  bar,  to  face  her  police 
record. 

Guilty  nations  are  no  more  immune  from  punishment  for 
their  crimes  than  are  individuals  guilty  of  high  crimes.  By 
their  acts  the  German  people  now  are  heaping  up  dire  punish- 
ment for  themselves.  The  world  is  losing,  with  tremendous 
rapidity,  its  original  and  totally  erroneous  impression  that 
"the  German  people"  are  innocent  of  the  crimes  that  have 
been  committed  under  the  German  uniform  and  the  black- 
vulture  flag. 

The  mental  attitude  of  President  Wilson  as  it  was  expressed 
in  his  message  to  Congress  as  late  as  April  2,  1917,  is  not  the 
mental  attitude  to-day  of  the  American  people  at  large.  He 
said :  "We  have  no  quarrel  with  the  German  people.  We  have 
no  feeling  towards  them  but  of  sympathy  and  friendship. 
It  was  not  upon  their  impulse  that  their  government  acted 
in  entering  upon  this  war. ' ' 

All  the  world  outside  of  Germany  now  knows  full  well  that 
Kaiser  Wilhelm,  representing  the  whole  German  people,  is 
the  man  who  started  the  war,  who  keeps  it  going,  and  who 
brought  the  war's  consequences  upon  Germany.  He  pressed 
the  button,  with  the  united  and  enthusiastic  approval  of  "the 
German  people."  It  is  an  undeniable  fact  that  from  the  very 
beginning  until  now  the  people  of  Germany  have  gloried  and 
exulted  in  the  war,  and  steadily  have  acclaimed  the  ruthless 

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leaders  who  have  directed  it, — Wilhelm,  Bissing,  Hindenberg, 
Tirpitz  and  Zeppelin.  In  spite  of  all  their  losses  and  miseries, 
even  to-day  the  "German  people"  are  absolutely  devoted  to 
the  Kaiser,  and  cheerfully  swallow  all  the  lies  that  his  cabinet 
and  the  Reichstag  hand  out  to  them.  Why  should  even  one 
American  deceive  himself  about  the  millions  of  Germans  who 
are  at  heart  as  mean  and  as  cruel  as  Tirpitz  and  Zeppelin? 
Remember  that  German  women  hawk  and  spit  in  the  faces  of 
heroes  who  happen  to  be  their  prisoners! 

There  is  much  idle  talk  in  newspaper  correspondence  about 
"unrest  in  Germany,"  and  a  "demand  for  a  change."  All 
that  empty  talk  is  only  an  effort  to  throw  dust  into  the  eyes 
of  the  world,  and  deceive  the  enemies  of  Germany.  There  has 
been  no  change  of  heart  at  Berlin,  and  there  never  will  be. 

Beyond  a  doubt,  Arthur  S.  Draper  is  absolutely  right  when 
he  assures  us  that  the  German  people  are  devoted  to  the 
Kaiser  and  kaiserism,  and  that  under  no  circumstances  will 
Wilhelm  and  the  Hohenzollerns  be  kicked  off  the  throne.  Mr. 
Draper  says  that  even  if  a  change  is  made,  it  will  be  to  a 
' '  constitutional  monarchy ' '  under  the  Kaiser ;  which  we  know 
would  be  no  change  whatsoever!  We  know  what  Germany 
will  be  like  under  the  Chinless  Hero  (?)  of  Verdun. 

Americans  must  now  be  very  careful  not  to  fool  themselves 
in  measuring  out  sympathy  for  "the  German  people";  for 
every  particle  of  it  will  be  wickedly  misplaced.  At  least  let 
us  not  make  ourselves  a  laughing-stock  for  Hans  and 
Gretchen. 

With  all  due  regard  for  our  war  President,  we  respectfully 
claim  that  in  the  minds  of  many  millions  of  Americans  both 
his  premises  and  his  conclusions  are  wrong.  Once, — three  full 
years  ago, — many  Americans  (like  ourselves)  felt  sympathy 
for  "the  German  people";  but  by  outrage  upon  outrage  the 
fact  has  been  driven  home  to  Americans  that  all  such  sym- 
pathy is  utterly  misplaced.  The  official  publications  of  the 
war  have  opened  our  eyes.  The  great  mass  of  the  German 
people  are  guilty  of  an  unprovoked  war,  and  of  wholesale  and 
retail  murder,  rape,  destruction  and  tortures  unparalleled 
even  among  the  lowest  savages  of  modern  times. 

For  forty  years  the  swell-headed  pan-germanists  and  the 
odious  Junkers  deliberately  have  educated  the  German  people 
into  this  fearful  war  of  attempted  conquest.  The  millions  of 
Germany  smilingly  kow-towed  to  the  war  lords  and  approved 

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colossal  annual  expenditures  in  preparing  for  this  very  war! 
The  man  who  says  that  the  conquest  of  France  and  England 
was  not  ardently  desired  and  deliberately  planned  by  "the 
German  people "  is  very  ignorant  of  current  history.  Ex- 
cepting a  few  Socialists,  all  Germany  was  ready  "to  the  last 
gaiter  but  ton "  on  August  1,  1914,  and  feverishly  eager  for 
the  war  to  begin !  Was  the  great  Kiel  Canal  built  for  com- 
mercial purposes?  Not  on  your  life!  Every  German  knows 
that  it  was  built  as  a  means  for  the  vanquishment  of  England 
on  the  sea;  and  one  German  friend  who  claims  much  inside 
knowledge  has  solemnly  assured  me  that  Germany  had  long 
intended  to  strike  France  and  England  just  as  soon  as  the 
Canal  was  finished. 

Never  in  the  history  of  the  world  was  any  war  ever  planned 
and  developed  through  so  long  a  period,  or  with  such  loving 
pains  and  thoroughness,  as  Germany's  present  war.  Its  con- 
struction covered  thirty  years,  and  throughout  that  period 
German  newspapers,  lectures,  books  and  speeches  were  full  of 
it.  It  was  taught  to  the  children  of  Germany,  for  at  least 
twenty  years.  For  at  least  ten  years  the  officers  of  the  Ger- 
man navy  had  been  drinking  to  "Der  Tag," — "The  Day" 
when  they  would  attack  the  British  navy  and  crush  it. 

Bismarck  was  a  very  shrewd  statesman,  as  well  as  a  ruthless 
conquestador  and  a  changer  of  telegrams.  But  he  left  Ger- 
many in  peace  and  friendship  with  England  and  Russia, 
while  William  the  Egotist,  hungry  to  be  the  boss  of  all  Europe, 
promptly  estranged  both.  William  alone  created  the  Triple 
Entente ! 

Outside  the  British  Army  and  Navy,  there  were  practically 
no  British  statesmen  who  realized  the  real  trend  of  Germany's 
ambitions.  That  is  why  the  outbreak  found  England  without 
a  powerful  army. 

Let  no  American  think  for  a  moment  that  the  press  and  the 
people  of  Germany  were  ignorant  of  what  was  coming,  or 
opposed  to  it.  The  whole  nation,  Socialists  and  all,  had  be- 
come afflicted  with  acute  megalomania,  and  a  real  elephantiasis 
of  egotism.  They  thought  that  by  being  sufficiently  prepared, 
and  sufficiently  treacherous  and  cruel,  they  could  bring  all 
Europe  under  the  German  heel,  to  toil  forever  in  the  German 
yoke.  To-day  even  the  German  Socialists  support  Kaiserism ; 
and  while  they  vociferously  are  shouting  for  "peace,"  re- 
member that  they  wish  only  a  German-made  peace  that  will 

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leave  Germany  in  the  saddle!  Let  all  other  Socialists  make 
due  note  of  this. 

The  first  incident  that  shocked  the  American  people  into 
a  realization  of  the  true  character  of  "the  German  people" 
was  the  sinking  of  the  Lusitania,  and  the  drowning  of  its 
great  company  of  women,  children  and  other  non-combatants. 
And  then,  while  England  and  America  were  laying  their 
streaming  dead  in  long  rows  on  the  dock  at  Queenstown,  "the 
people"  of  Germany  were  literally  dancing  with  joy!  The 
German  people  called  it  a  glorious  "victory"!  "Were  some 
women  and  children  lost?  Well,  they  should  not  have  sailed 
on  the  Lusitania.  They  were  warned, — by  the  German  Am- 
bassador himself ! ' ' 

And  the  beautiful  city  of  Frankfort-on-the-Main  gave  all 
its  school  children  A  HOLIDAY,  in  which  to  indulge  in  unre- 
strained rejoicing  over  the  sinking  of  the  Lusitania!  In 
Frankfort,  if  you  were  to  throw  a  banana  peel  on  the  street, 
or  in  the  Palm  Garden,  you  would  fiercely  be  arrested,  and 
savagely  fined  5  marks  for  the  atrocity. 

And  some  of  "the  people"  of  Germany  struck  a  joy  medal 
in  celebration  of  the  Lusitania  victory.  A  reproduction 
shows  that  it  was  a  charming  and  soulful  work  of  German  art. 

And  the  submarine  reptile  who  sank  the  Lusitania  was 
decorated  (with  the  "  Order  Pour  la  Merite"),  and  promoted, 
by  the  man  whom  young  Hagenbeck  of  Hamburg  character- 
ized as  "our  dear,  good,  kind  Emperor." 

Faugh ! 

"Give  me  an  ounce  of  civet,  good  apothecary, 
To  sweeten  mine  imagination ! ' ' 

Last  week  it  was  reported  by  wounded  British  prisoners, 
exchanged  and  sent  from  Germany  via  Switzerland,  that  "as 
we  lay  in  .the  train,  crowded  and  helpless,  many  German 
women  came  up  to  the  cars  and  spit  upon  us. "  I  have  already 
cited  the  story  of  a  Canadian  prisoner. 

During  the  past  three  years  I  have  read  every  scrap  of  eye- 
witness information  that  has  come  before  me  in  print  record- 
ing observations  in  Germany,  by  war  correspondents  and 
others.  My  reading  covers  many  newspapers,  magazines, 
books  and  official  publications  of  various  kinds.  Through  all 
this  mass  I  have  looked  in  vain  for  expressions  from  the  com- 
mon people  of  Germany  of  some  disapproval  of  German 

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cruelties  and  atrocities  on  land  or  sea,  or  of  sympathy  for  the 
victims  of  German  cruelty.  Find  just  one,  if  you  can.  I  can 
not.  Not  once  have  I  seen  an  expression  or  sentiment  of  that 
kind  reported  from  Germany.  The  callousness  of  the  women 
of  Germany  toward  the  ravishment,  wounding,  torture  and 
ghastly  mutilation  of  their  sisters  in  Belgium,  France,  Eng- 
land, Servia,  Poland  and  Armenia  is  astounding,  beyond 
belief.  But  we  are  learning  a  lot  these  days. 

Germany  deliberately  permitted  the  atrocious  Turks  to 
murder  about  1,500,000  helpless  Armenians ;  and  so  far  as  we 
know,  not  one  person  in  Germany,  high  or  low,  has  uttered 
one  little  protest  against  that  colossal  crime.  Can  you  beat 
it!  As  the  world  knows  very  well,  Germany  absolutely  con- 
trols Turkey,  and  drove  her  into  the  war;  and  Germany  is 
guilty  of  complicity  in  the  death  of  every  non-combatant 
Armenian  of  that  whole  two  millions  of  helpless  persons  who 
were  slaughtered,  or  drowned,  or  starved  on  the  deserts. 

The  ghastly  murder  of  Edith  Cavell,  the  nurse,  and  the 
Apache-like  slaughter  of  Captain  Fryatt  "go"  in  Germany. 
The  forcible  abduction  and  enslavement  of  5,000  young 
women,  boys  and  men  of  Lille,  Roubaix  and  Tourcoing,  and  all 
the  younger  women  of  Noyon,  France,  just  before  the  latter 
was  recaptured  by  the  British,  is  all  right  in  Germany.  In 
the  New  York  Evening  World  of  July  27  you  will  find 
in  an  interview  with  Louis  Raemakers,  the  Dutch  cartoonist 
nemesis  of  Germany,  a  fearful  account  of  what  the  German 
officers  do  with  the  girls  of  France,  Belgium  and  Servia. 
There  are  photographs  by  the  score  of  dead  children  in  Servia 
"upon  whom  the  most  frightful  crimes  had  been  committed 
before  they  were  slashed  to  death  across  the  body,"  and 
' '  woman  after  woman  whose  breasts  had  been  cut  off. ' ' 

I  believe  that  if  the  German  soldiers  were  to  kill  and  eat 
their  prisoners,  in  the  name  of  "Germany,"  the  German 
people  would  accept  it  as  justified  by  the  "attack"  on  Ger- 
many, and  the  utterly  false  formula  that  "Germany  is 
fighting  for  her  life." 

The  military  ring  has  by  hard  and  continuous  lying  made 
the  German  masses  believe  that  "The  Allies  wish  to  destroy 
Germany";  whereas  the  Allies  wish  to  do  nothing  of  the  kind. 
All  they  wish  to  do  is  to  secure  the  safety  of  the  world  against 
the  barbarians  of  Berlin. 

After  the  war  is  over,  will  the  men  and  women  of  America 

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and  England  and  France  enjoy  traveling  in  Germany,  eating 
in  German  hotels,  promenading  in  the  Thiergarten  of  Berlin, 
and  fraternizing  with  German  army  officers  fresh  from  the 
war?  Can  they  tell  the  ravishers  of  helpless  women,  and  the 
murderers  of  children  and  old  men,  from  the  other  men  of 
Germany?  No;  they  can  not.  The  trail  of  the  serpent  will 
be  over  them  all. 

After  this  war  how  will  Americans  relish  the  sound  of  the 
German  language,  and  the  teaching  of  it  in  their  schools? 
Will  they  patronize  German  operas  as  of  yore?  Of  what 
will  the  strains  of  the  "Blue  Danube"  waltz  remind  them? 

How  will  American  men  of  science  now  regard  the  nation 
whose  scientists  invented  poison  gas,  and  sent  bacteria  of 
glanders  and  anthrax  for  horses  and  cattle,  into  friendly  Ru- 
mania, under  the  privileged  seal  of  "diplomacy"?  We  can 
give  all  the  details  of  that  episode,  from  official  sources. 

Except  by  rare  flashes  of  side  light,  the  people  of  America 
have  had  few  opportunities  to  learn  what  the  Allies  really 
think  now  of  the  German  Germans.  The  catalogue  of  a 
dealer  in  second  hand  books  ordinarily  is  the  very  last  place 
in  which  one  would  look  for  expressions  of  opinion  of  nations 
and  people.  But  in  war,  always  look  for  the  unexpected. 
Book  Catalogue  No.  767,  of  Henry  Sotheran  &  Co.,  London, 
contains  this,  soberly  set  forth  on  page  21 : 

BENEDEN  (Pierre  Joseph  van :  Univ.  LOUVAIN,  BELGIUM)  ANI- 
MAL PARASITES  AND  MESSMATES.    18  woodcuts,  post  8vo,  2  s. 
(pub.  5s.). 
Belgium  came  to  know  viler  human  parasites  from  German  universities 

than  the  filthiest  bloodsuckers  of  the  insect  world. 

And  on  page  28  this  item  appears: 

HARTMAN  (Robert:  Univ.  BERLIN)  ANTHROPOID  APES,  with  63 

woodcuts,  post  8vo,  cl.  2  s.  (pub.  5  s.). 

These  would  suggest  the  University-bred  German  officers  who  defiled 
with  their  own  filth  the  French  houses  in  which  they  were  billeted. 

We  will  add  that  they  also  suggest  the  ethics  of  the  wol- 
verine, whose  favorite  habit  it  is  systematically  to  defile  all  the 
food  in  a  miner's  cabin  which  he  can  neither  eat  nor  carry 
away. 

All  the  world  now  knows  that  the  Allies,  of  whom,  thank 
God,  America  at  last  is  one,  never  will  cease  fighting  the  mad- 
dogs,  the  wolves  and  wolverines  of  Germany  until  they  are 

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thoroughly  whipped.  Be  the  time  long  or  short,  the  Allies  will 
outlast  the  Teuton  and  the  Turk,  and  will  dictate  the  terms 
that  both  shall  accept.  America  is  ready  to  throw  into  the 
scale  one-half  of  all  that  she  possesses,  if  need  be,  to  secure 
that  end. 

And  then  what  ? 

When  Germany  is  thoroughly  beaten,  as  assuredly  she  will 
be,  what  shall  be  her  punishment  for  her  crimes  ? 

The  only  sensible  and  correct  policy  to  pursue  toward  a 
dirty-fighting  enemy  is  to  get  him  down  and  keep  him  down ! 
No  greater  mistake  could  be  made  than  for  the  Allies  to  become 
"magnanimous"  to  brutal  Germany  when  the  time  comes  to 
hand  her  what  is  coming  to  her  in  final  settlement.  We  want 
no  sissies  nor  weak  sisters  representing  us  at  the  peace  con- 
ference, pleading  for  easy  terms  for  Germany.  Any  man  who 
cannot  guess  how  much  Germany  would  be  "magnanimous" 
to  the  Entente  allies  if  she  should  win,  is  a  colossal  idiot. 
Think  of  the  size  of  the  cash  indemnities  that  Germany  would 
exact  of  America,  England  and  France  if  she  could  win ! 

It  would  seem  that  no  matter  how  rapacious  or  egotistic  are 
Germany's  intentions,  always  and  everywhere  there  is  a  gar- 
rulous German  ready  to  blab  them  out  in  public.  If  Germany 
had  the  chance,  she  would  utterly  ruin  all  of  the  Allies.  There 
is  no  conceivable  insult  or  injury  that  she  would  not  visit  upon 
them,  just  as  she  has  upon  the  conquered  districts  of  Belgium 
and  France.  The  United  States  would  be  called  upon  to  pay 
an  indemnity  of  just  about  $20,000,000,000;  and  quickly,  too! 
Make  no  mistake  about  that ! 

We  have  been  reading  German  anticipations  of  the  taking 
of  British  East  Africa  and  the  Congo  Free  State,  to  join  them 
to  the  (late  lamented)  "German  colonies"  for  the  making  of  a 
vast  African  empire  under  the  "dear,  good,  kind  Kaiser"  of 
Belgian  fame.  This  is  well  known  to  the  English;  and  the 
answer  is  that  Germany's  lost  African  colonies  are  already 
lost  to  Germany  forever  and  a  day !  To  give  back  to  Germany 
any  one  of  those  African  colonies  would  be  criminal  folly,  and 
of  a  certainty  it  would  breed  no  end  of  future  trouble  in 
Africa.  Knowing  this,  the  Boers  of  South  Africa  will  see 
Germany  in  hades  before  any  influence  on  earth  can  persuade, 
or  force  them,  to  hand  back  one  foot  of  "German"  East 
Africa, — a  colony  that  was  armed  to  the  teeth  long  prior  to 
1914,  and  that  started  fighting  immediately  that  war  was  de- 
clared in  August,  1914 ! 

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Even  if  overweening  magnanimity  should  beg  that  "  Ger- 
man" Southwest  Africa  be  given  back,  the  dictates  of  hu- 
manity would  sternly  forbid  it.  After  the  brutal  murder  by 
Germany  of  208  of  the  leading  natives  of  the  German  capital 
at  Walfish  Bay  for  no  reason  whatever  save  the  innate  German 
brutality  of  the  new  governor,  and  the  poisoning  of  the  wells 
of  Swakopmund,  it  would  be  a  high  crime  against  the  native 
population  ever  again  to  place  them  within  the  power  of  any 
German  governor. 

No ;  decidedly  not.  Germany  will  not  be  given  back  a  single 
foot  of  any  one  of  her  former  African  colonies.  The  close  of 
this  war  will  be  no  time  for  mushy  sentiment  toward  the 
dirtiest  fighters  on  earth. 

The  war  should  not  and  will  not  end  until  Germany  has 
surrendered  every  foot  of  invaded  territory  now  occupied  by 
the  Teutonic  allies,  and  agreed  to  pay  to  Belgium  an  indem- 
nity of  about  $5,000,000,000  with  another  $5,000,000,000  to 
France,  or  the  equivalent  thereof,  and  the  return  of  Alsace 
and  Lorraine.  The  delivery  to  England  of  her  cowardly  navy 
as  a  pledge  of  future  good  behavior  is  really  immaterial.  The 
German  navy  is  chiefly  a  scuttling  navy,  great  only  against 
unarmed  ships  and  fishing  boats,  but  never  willing  to  meet  any 
foe  on  equal  terms. 

.  When  the  peace  terms  are  written,  England  should  take 
back  Heligoland,  as  a  German  bond  to  keep  the  peace.  The 
giving  away  to  her  only  enemy  of  that  immensely  valuable 
island  was  one  of  the  greatest  blunders  in  statecraft  that  Eng- 
land ever  committed.  Now,  there  is  only  one  way  to  redeem 
it, — make  Germany  surrender  Heligoland  before  any  German 
ship  is  permitted  to  sail  the  seas. 

All  the  world  now  knows  that  the  preservation  of  a  Slavic 
Balkan  barrier  now  is  absolutely  necessary  to  the  peace  of 
Asia. 

And  what  will  be  the  attitude  of  Americans,  English- 
men, Frenchmen,  Italians  and  Russians  after  the  war,  toward 
the  mad  dogs  and  wolves  of  Germany?  For  the  sake  of  " busi- 
ness" and  " trade"  and  " cheap  goods"  will  we  fraternize  once 
more  with  the  red-handed  murderers  of  ten  thousand  Belgian 
and  French  civilians,  the  ravishers  and  enslavers  of  100,000 
Belgian  and  French  women,  the  sinkers  of  the  Lusitania,  and 
the  murderers  of  Captain  Fryatt  and  Nurse  Cavell  ?  Will  we 
buy  goods  made  by  blood-stained  German  hands,  that  have 

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dragged  Belgian  and  French  girls  from  their  screaming 
mothers  ?  Will  we  buy  and  use  goods  made  on  stolen  Belgian 
machines,  of  materials  stolen  from  France  1  Will  we  patronize 
the  German  " science"  that  produced  chlorine  gas  for  British 
soldiers,  or  the  German  artillery  artists  who  have  gleefully 
pounded  the  Cathedral  of  Eheims  into  ruins? 

Will  we  not  hear  with  the  swan  song  of  Lohengrin  the 
dying  shrieks  of  the  Lusitania  women  and  children  as  they 
struggle  in  the  icy  ^waters  ? 

In  view  of  the  records  of  the  past  three  years,  what  two 
words  are  more  loathsome  and  detestable  than  "German 
kultur"? 

The  only  logical  conclusion  of  Germany's  career  of  crime 
and  dirty  fighting  is,  at  the  close  of  the  war,  the  contempt,  the 
aversion  and  the  loathing  of  the  civilized  world,  and  a  uni- 
versal policy  of  non-intercourse.  Let  Germany  go  and  live 
with  Austria,  and  the  loathsome  Turk,  in  a  hell  of  their  own. 
Can  any  American  not  of  German  birth  ever  again  desire  to 
visit  and  travel  in  the  land  of  the  criminal  Kaiser  who  started 
the  war,  the  land  of  the 'murderers,  ravishers  and  traitors 
whom  the  war  brought  to  the  surface?  We  cannot  conceive 
it  possible. 

And  after  the  war  is  over,  the  less  we  hear  in  America  of 
the  German  language  and  of  German  literature,  music,  art 
and  science,  the  better  for  all  concerned.  The  German  idols 
one  and  all  lie  in  the  mud,  in  fragments, — cast  down  and 
smashed  by  the  mad-dogs  of  Germany,  and  no  one  else! 
Americans  of  German  descent  may  build  monuments  to  their 
memory,  but  never  again  can  they  be  set  up  for  Americans 
to  worship. 

Through  her  crimes  and  her  dirty  fighting,  Germany  has 
earned  the  contempt  and  aversion  of  the  world,  and  it  will  be 
paid  to  her  as  long  as  civilization  endures.  Whole  libraries 
will  be  written  about  the  brutalities  of  the  German  Germans, 
the  cowardice  of  their  navy,  the  blunders  of  their  alleged 
statesmen,  and  the  carnival  of  lies  of  the  Kaiser  and  his 
advisors. 

Men  who  fight  honorably  take  their  punishment  like  men, 
get  over  it,  and  often  become  friends  again.  But  not  so  when 
one  party  is  "a  dirty  fighter,"  a  gouger,  and  a  hitter  below 
the  belt.  Even  the  youngest  American  schoolboy  despises 
the  unfair  fighter,  and  loathes  the  sight  of  him. 

After  this  war  is  over,  no  man  outside  the  Teutonic-Turco 

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mad-dog  influence  will  be  so  poor  or  so  mean  as  to  look  upon 
a  German  German  with,  real  respect,  much  less  with  admira- 
tion. The  world  will  cheerfully  go  naked  and  hungry  ere  it 
accepts  food  and  clothes  made  in  Germany.  Americans  with 
self  respect  will  refuse  to  buy  German  goods,  or  to  trade  in 
stores  that  offer  them  for  sale, — not  indeed  to  "punish"  Ger- 
many, but  because  the  source  is  so  loathsome  and  offensive. 
Germany,  Austria  and  Turkey  already  have  the  contempt, 
the  scorn  and  the  hatred  of  the  whole  world,  and  after  the  war 
they  should  be  ostracised  and  shunned  for  a  thousand  years. 

It  will  be  only  the  most  sordid  and  mean-spirited  people  of 
America,  England  and  France  who  will  again  buy  of  Ger- 
many because  her  goods  are  cheap.  It  is  now  time  publicly 
to  declare  in  America  the  existing  aversion  to  Germany,  in 
order  that  all  importers  may  be  made  to  know  and  under- 
stand the  intentions  of  the  public,  and  thereby  avoid  loading 
their  shelves  with  goods  that  they  can  not  sell  to  Americans. 
Let  signs  go  up  now  reading :  * '  No  German  goods  sold  here. ' ' 

It  is  now  time  to  drop  the  German  language  from  every 
school  in  America,  finally  and  forever.  It  is  ludicrous  folly 
to  permit  the  language  of  America's  only  real  enemy  to  be 
taught  in  our  schools.  Never  again  will  Americans  need  it. 
We  can  well  do  without  the  language  of  brutality  and 
tyranny. 

One  of  the  few  good  services  rendered  by  this  German-made 
war  concerns  South  America.  It  has  shown  Brazil,  Argen- 
tina and  even  Mexico  exactly  where  they  stand  with  respect 
to  the  Monroe  doctrine.  If  Germany  should  win  this  war, 
then  should  all  the  nations  of  South  and  Central  America 
pray  to  God  for  deliverance ;  for  with  Germany  in  the  saddle, 
their  peace  and  prosperity  would  be  gone  forever.  With  per- 
fect clearness  of  vision,  Brazil  now  sees  this,  and  has  the  in- 
domitable courage  to  act  the  part  of  a  great  and  self-respect- 
ing nation,  bent  upon  preserving  the  rights  of  her  people. 

Argentina  sees  the  light,  but  hesitates  to  take  up  her  share 
of  the  white  man's  burden;  and  Chili  says:  "Let  George 
doit!" 

If  there  is  now  even  one  Central  or  South  American  state 
which  can  not  see  that  the  United  States,; — with  the  moral 
support  of  the  British  navy, — has  for  years  stood  like  a  rock 
between  them  and  the  most  rapacious  and  cruel  people  on 

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earth,  then  that  state  is  hopelessly  blind.  And  for  this  serv- 
ice the  United  States  has  not  asked  anything  but  common 
friendship, — and  sometimes  has  failed  to  receive  even  that! 
The  Central  and  South  American  republics  should  now  set 
their  houses  in  order  in  regard  to  their  future  dealings  with 
the  German  "  influence, "  and  German  commercial  aggression. 
They  should  take  warning  from  the  condition  of  Italy  before 
the  war,  when  German  capital  and  German  greed  held  the 
banks,  railroads,  and  sea  commerce  of  Italy  literally  by  the 
throat.  Do  Argentina,  Chili,  Ecuador,  Bolivia  and  Colombia 
wish  that  condition  to  obtain  with  them  ?  After  the  war,  Ger- 
many will  make  a  tremendous  push  to  secure  commercial 
supremacy  in  South  America ;  and  let  South  America  beware ! 
The  time  to  build  dykes  is  before  the  floods  come,  not  after. 

Saith  the  Psalmist  with  inspiration  from  the  same  God 
whom  the  German  Kaiser  piously  and  persistently  claims  as 
his  silent  partner, 

"The  wicked  shall  be  turned  into  hell,  and  all  the  nations 
that  forget  God." 

And  to  pan-Germany,  Turkey  and  Austria  we  transmit  that 
solemn  promise  of  Holy  Writ  of  what  is  in  store  for  them,  in 
punishment  for  their  high  crimes  against  humanity. 

After  the  war,  nothing  can  save  them  from  existence  in  a 
hell  of  national  poverty,  and  world-wide  scorn  and  aversion, 
all  of  their  own  making. 


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